typesetting
- noun
- /ˈtaɪpˌsɛtɪŋ/
- Specialized
- I suppose the trade-off would be to spend time working on typesetting, but after a while, I found it oddly therapeutic.
- typesetting and printing
- typesetting equipment
- typesetting and layout
Without this, you created the tech typesetting system and released it as open source.
- Without this, you created the tech typesetting system and released it as open source.
Examples
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The Press's data-retrieval system made it possible for any reporter on staff to follow any story through editing, typesetting, and production.
Fiction book (1991) -
For example, Hamilton adjusted the typesetting of the two texts so that a word or phrase of the original fits just above the English equivalent.
Academic text (2008) -
Before then... ...you needed typesetting equipment.
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Yes, I expect you learn a good deal about words down there in that typesetting room.
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Oh, I'm just filling in time in the typesetting room.
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Offset lithography paralleled contemporaneous developments in electronic typesetting technologies, thus reinforcing its popularity.
Academic text (2016) -
The Gov began to indenture female apprentices from as early as 1974 in typesetting and bookbinding, and 1978 in press machining.
Academic text (2016) -
The introduction of newer technologies in typesetting, press machining, and bookbinding resulted in the swift disappearance of specific printing trades and associated job losses, particularly during the period between the 1960s and 1980s.
Academic text (2016) -
In the age of powered rotary presses, linotype machines, and machine-made paper, he insisted on using hand presses, manual typesetting, and handmade linen paper.
Academic text (2017) -
The typesetting of the magazine was meticulously done to ensure each page looked professional and polished.
Synonyms
The way people arrange letters on a page or screen to make text clear and easy to read
Setting text by hand or machine to make pages for print
Antonyms
Compounds
How Professional
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Typesetting comes from the parts type, once small blocks with letters, and set, which means 'to put in place'. So typesetting is the work of 'putting letters and images in place' to make a page look right.