Typesetter

Word TYPESETTER
Character 10
Hyphenation type set ter
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Typesetter"

What do we mean by typesetter?

A person who sets type; an employee in a printshop who manually selected pieces of movable type and assembled them for printing.

A machine that combines type in the correct order for printing.

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The word "typesetter" in example sentences

On p. 142 the giant crabs from the blurb finally appear, and, the author having run short of idiocies, the typesetter is forced to increase the interline spacing about 16% to make the book come out the right number of pages ... ❋ Unknown (2004)

I have been known to call the typesetter and ask for 'just one last little tweak'. ❋ Karenmiller (2006)

There are rules involving the use of these signs, and most books obey them all the way through, but in this book either the author was being experimental, or the typesetter was a bit confused. ❋ Joseph Conrad (1890)

This has been brought up before on this blog, and it's called the typesetter's rule. ❋ Unknown (2009)

After graduating with an MFA degree from Claremont Graduate School (1954), Van Vliet traveled in Europe, apprenticing herself for a time as a hand typesetter. ❋ Unknown (2009)

After college (where I studied English Lit and film), I became a typesetter. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It has made its mark on history, which is a great credit to its compiler and typesetter Richard Rice. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And this helped me cobble together an early professional career both as a typesetter and a journalist, because I knew how to operate these complicated phototypesetting machines. ❋ Tracy Baim (2012)

I'm far more interested in the work the author has done to get the book into my brain, than the work the printer/typesetter/distributor has done. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When he discovered a printer had made punctuation changes to A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, he wrote that he had "given orders for the typesetter to be shot without giving him time to pray." ❋ Unknown (2011)

Was this just a typo, a mistake, or was the reporter, transcriber or typesetter having a bit of sly fun? ❋ Unknown (2009)

I mean, I've known him to be a master typesetter and chant expert, but this other aspect of his talent is only fully dawning on me now. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The history of question marks and their ilk turns out to be epic, particularly in the case of the ampersand, whose evolution takes in everything from Julius Caesar to a 17th-century typesetter called Amper who didn't actually exist and even Nazi Germany. ❋ Unknown (2011)

During the editing process, successive versions of the same novel flit back and forth between author, agent, typesetter and publisher in a series of email attachments, presumably all with variations on the same file name. ❋ Stephanie Merritt (2010)

Also, I was very glad to have my copy of the copy-edited manuscript, because there were several times that I referred back to the marked up copy to try to figure out why the typesetter typed what was typed! ❋ Unknown (2009)

At this time the manuscript was given to the typesetter – who apparently then rekeyed the entire thing in from scratch. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The main costs are in the back-end stuff that the reader doesn't see - the author will want an advance, of course, and there must be an editor, a copy-editor, several proof-readers, a typesetter, etc. ❋ Unknown (2009)

(I know this sounds really strange in this day and age of electronic documents, but after seeing how many changes were needed on darn near every page, I can see that it would probably be less work for an experienced typesetter to just type it in all over again.) ❋ Unknown (2009)

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