Example sentences for: typesetting

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

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

  • [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).

  • 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 italic forms of many typefaces, especially those designed since photographic and computer typesetting equipment became prevalent, the distinction between the digraphs æ and œ is all but lost (and in some is lost entirely).

  • Judging by our own frequent experience with government agencies, federal, state, and local, the most common cause of bad foreign language publications is simply the practice of considering translation and foreign-language typesetting as if they were commodities and awarding the work to the lowest bidder--who is often incompetent.


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