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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.
Today, compositors rely far too much on the automatic hyphenation programs packaged with their computer typesetting systems.
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.
Typesetters in England seem to know that the words Eng-land and Eng-lish are so hyphenated, a practice that has eluded many American compositors and proofreaders, including those working for some of the “best” publishers.