Twain got involved in two ruinous enterprises: first, a plan to own his work by having his own publishing company, and then a plan to use profits from the company to invest in and promote a new kind of automatic typesetting machine, the Paige compositor.
Not even those who typeset a new edition of Martial are spared the rod: "The printers have indulged immoderately in their favourite sport of dropping letters on the floor and then leaving them to lie there or else putting them back in wrong places; and at the top of p. 113 of the text their merriment transgresses the bounds of decorum".
There's a new font designed specifically for digital screens and an improved typesetting engine on the way which adds support for drop capitals and line justification to make it easier to read.
Meanwhile, typesetting having heightened her sense of visual layout, she began a new novel written in blocks to be surrounded by white spaces.
An interesting consequence of the means used to produce the new edition, digital typesetting software, is that the idea of a text takes on a new shape.
He turned down an opportunity to invest $500 in a new invention called the telephone, but over a span of 15 years poured several hundred thousand dollars into a typesetting machine whose smooth-talking "inventor" was forever on the verge of getting the thing to work.
The Lathrop Building still contained most of the News-Miner's offices and typesetting equipment, but it was not large enough to contain the new press without extensive renovations, thus requiring a new building.
On Monday, Robinson e-mailed a Word file to a typesetting company in Chennai, India.
OWEN: I had a job typesetting a little magazine called the Speed Times, in Colorado, which was about racing.
Because of a computer typesetting error, an unintended side comment appeared last Sunday in this column, which was about the Art Students League building.
