Example sentences for: typesetting

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

  • 1. The headword is syllabified in W , not in L . In older dictionaries the words are syllabified mainly to help in pronouncing them; latterly, syllabication has been used largely to find where a word can be hyphenated at the end of a line of text, though, judging by today's newspapers and magazines, one would be sore put to believe that a dictionary had ever been within the grasp of their editors, proofreaders, or the programmers who wrote the hyphenation programs for the automatic typesetting many of them now employ.

  • For example, MIPS is a convenient acronym for millions of instructions per second, point and click is a quick and direct way of describing basic mouse techniques, and run-around , borrowed from typesetting, is an apt metaphor for the way text flows around the outside edges of a graphic image.

  • [In the early 1960s I designed a hyphenation program (for automatic typesetting) based on a logic of prefix-root-suffix combined with a table look-up (for anomalies: for instance, before analysis of a word ending in -ing , the word would be checked against a list including thing, bring, string , and other words that could not be hyphenated).

  • For its third incarnation we can cite page 920 of the present book in which colophon is drawn into service as the title of a section that lists all the typographic fonts employed in typesetting the book.

  • SIC!³s are usually saved up for typesetting in batches.


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