Example sentences for: compositors

How can you use “compositors” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Today, compositors rely far too much on the automatic hyphenation programs packaged with their computer typesetting systems.

  • Some word processing programs now offer such a feature--the one I use Framework III (Ashton-Tate), is not bad at all--and writers as well as compositors and publishers seem to care less and less whether a word is hypenated in an acceptable manner.

  • But we have very good compositors, and if they make errors, they are often very subtle.

  • The Collins is a British dictionary, but, despite the fact that some compositors clambered over one another to acquire the computerized lists of such words showing the breaks, others paid the information little heed—particularly Collins Publishers— and the marks were omitted entirely from the Second Edition of their dictionary.

  • My other complaint is about compositors (and proofreaders) who set loose lines because they do not know how to hyphenate the word they have carried over to a following line.


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