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- noun Plural form of
typesetter .
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Examples
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It’s called the composing room even though no one composes pages in it, and the machines in it are called typesetters even though they don’t really set type.
Remember Me, Irene Jan Burke 1996
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It has become a daily fixture for American consumers—the collection of warnings, disclaimers and legal jargon that comes with most products and services, designed in what typesetters descriptively call "mouse type."
It's Not Your Eyes…the Fine Print Is Getting Really, Really Small Missy Sullivan 2012
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All typesetters show you their proposed layout using the same dummy Latin language, which begins "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna ..."
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Five Reasons Romney's "Plan" Is the Same Old Job-Killing Madness RJ 2011
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In the print book production process, typesetters work from an author's word processing files that have been electronically edited and are ready to proceed to the next stage: formatting and page layout.
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Those typesetters did a great job with this booklet.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Five Reasons Romney's "Plan" Is the Same Old Job-Killing Madness RJ 2011
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He had never received a sign of the existence of one, and from absence of judgment in rejecting all he wrote it seemed plausible that editors were myths, manufactured and maintained by office boys, typesetters, and pressmen.
Chapter 24 2010
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There are writers out there who need very little help from their editors, copywriters, typesetters, etc. – but they're in the minority.
Promises… Promises… « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2010
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Again with the blacksmiths versus the automobiles, the typesetters versus the personal computers and so on.
Free Trade in Tech Labor, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The Fine Squint mouse type It has become a daily fixture for American consumers—the collection of warnings, disclaimers and legal jargon that comes with most products and services, designed in what typesetters descriptively call "mouse type."
Week in Words Erin McKean 2012
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So we have the immediate welfare of the typesetters weighed against the theoretical impact of personal computers on our overall economy for generations to come.
Wal-Mart controversy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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