Sentence examples for of typesetting from inspiring English sources
Mechanical methods of typesetting prevailed until the 1960s.
One Linotype operator could do the work of seven or eight hand compositors, dramatically reducing the cost of typesetting and making printed matter less expensive.
In the 1960's he began designing fonts for phototypesetting, the first computer-aided form of typesetting, which sounded the death knell for the punch cutter's trade.
The automation of typesetting, primarily through the Linotype machine, patented in the United States in 1884 by Ottmar Mergenthaler, made these media more readily available.
Although there are now software programs that help automate the creation of LaTeX documents, a working knowledge of LaTeX is still desirable for this kind of typesetting.
Modern technology has made the skill of typesetting, once crucial to the printing process by placing individual lead type into wooden frames to lay out a page, obsolete.
In the 1980s your correspondent (an inveterate geek) moved seamlessly from cutting up wax galleys of typeset copy with X-acto knives and pasting them squarely on boards sent off for offset printing to Aldus PageMaker's near-identical digital steps in desktop publishing.
Orwell therefore had to produce new, fictitious slogans which would take up exactly the same amount of space because of the inflexibility of lead typesetting - and complained that the book had been "ruined".
Its title suggestive of marching commands, "Align Left Center Align Right Justify," compares the silhouettes of four typesetting margins using strips of transparent tape affixed in neat horizontal rows to the wall, where they resemble gleaming yet invisible texts.
This was easily done in the era of mechanical typesetting, and had the advantage of not requiring the casting of special type for IPA symbols.
COMMUNICATION (Emergence of journalism and newspapers -- because of lack of Hebraic typeset, a jargon emerged devised out of the Latin alphabet, Polish syntax and the Yiddish language).
