Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or process of setting or combining types in proper order for printing. It is usually done by picking up each type from an exposed case, and arranging the types so collected in a composing-stick in lines of even length.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or art of setting type.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
typeset . - noun typography The
setting orcomposition ofwritten material intotype .
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Examples
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But I didn’t know anything about printing and I’d never even heard the word typesetting before, so the first thing I had to do was some research.
Muffins and Mayhem Suzanne Beecher 2010
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But I didn’t know anything about printing and I’d never even heard the word typesetting before, so the first thing I had to do was some research.
Muffins and Mayhem Suzanne Beecher 2010
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All printing and typesetting is done by hand on a Vandercook S-219AB proofing press.
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All printing and typesetting is done by hand on a Vandercook S-219AB proofing press.
Audio Interview with Fine Press Owner Larry Thompson: On the Process of Letterpress Printing 2009
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Once again, I suspect, British typesetting is different from American.
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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1 - Serving as a source for specialist skills such as typesetting, copy editing, cover designing, etc.
Making Light: A music exec's take on the Macmillan/Amazon throwdown 2010
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In its iUniverse form, it's got typos and typesetting issues and the cover is bland.
Book Report: Infinity Hold 3, by Barry B. Longyear Ulysses 2010
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In its iUniverse form, it's got typos and typesetting issues and the cover is bland.
Archive 2010-01-01 Ulysses 2010
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Only if the pre-schooler was doing the typesetting.
‘Kraut-hammer.’ Very droll, Newsweek. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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I can see in hindsight that I must have had at least vague plans to continue self-publishing; that would explain the typesetting.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2009
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