Ms Reidy at Simon & Schuster says she has brought functions such as typesetting in-house to boost efficiency.
Among Zimmer's papers was a piano-vocal score that the French music publisher Salabert typeset in the fall of 1944.
"I saw William S. Burroughs there once," she said, sounding mournful, then jumped into a rat-a-tat history of the book business from before the Internet to the current age of e-books, recalling that when her first novel was published, it was typeset in the old-fashioned, pre-computerized way.
They look like copies of paper, but they can't be designed or typeset in the same way as paper, and however splendid the cover images may look on a hi-res screen, they're still images rather than physical things.
The low-hanging cloud of layoffs, however, looms over the fun, and the second section, "Replace All" — with its sinister implication — is typeset in the style of a contract or other legal document: "II (C) i (b): Jenny remembered that Jill used to hoard paper clips, staples, every sort of fastener and fixative.
Alien: A typographical guide Dave Addey | Typeset In The Future | 1 December 2014.
Correction to: British Journal of Cancer (2009) 101, 441 451; doi: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6605186 Owing to an error during the final correction of this paper, panels E and F in Figure 4 were incorrectly typeset, resulting in the loss of part of panel 4E.
As Houston notes, "personal web pages have democratised typesetting in a way unimaginable to Gutenberg".
Rising circulations were made possible by increased literacy and by technological advances in mechanical typesetting, in high-speed printing (rotary press), in communications (telegraph and telephone), and in transport (railway).
Computerized typesetting, method of typesetting in which characters are generated by computer and transferred to light-sensitive paper or film by means of either pulses from a laser beam or moving rays of light from a stroboscopic source or a cathode-ray tube (CRT).
