Example sentences for: typesetting

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

  • With the emergence of computer typesetting in the 1960s, it seemed likely that the analysis of large bodies of text from newspapers and periodicals (in particular) would be facilitated, for one of the greatest expenses was the cost of keyboarding the texts into machine-readable form so that they could be processed speedily and economically by computer.

  • No amount of pointing out the vagaries of Elizabethan typesetting could shift his conviction.

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

  • 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.

  • [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).


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