Sentences with phrase «typesetters set»

When I first started out in law publishing, authors produced copy on manual typewriters, editors used pens and literal cut and paste to hack it into shape, typesetters set the copy in movable lead type or «slugs» and made it up to page in print trays, and then the presses rolled.

When I first started out in law publishing, authors produced copy on manual typewriters, editors used pens and literal cut and paste to hack it into shape, typesetters set the copy in movable lead type or «slugs» and made it up... [more]

Not exact matches

Can you imagine God's creation of the world as a sort of book set in type by the printer; everything is in the right place and makes good sense when one reads it; and then while the typesetter is gone, a scoundrel confuses the type.

Will you accuse the typesetter of setting up a madman's book?

Example, the typesetter credited in the «Deathly Hallows» colophon shared what settings he used for laying out that book in InDesign.

This requires a special skill set, different from an editor's, because a good typesetter is absolutely dictionary proof, which means he has internalized the correct spelling and exact meaning of roughly 500,000 words, plus all of their proper tenses, inflections and cases.

Manuscript to Printed Book: help in understanding the process and planning the budget / timetable; help coordinate and oversee the process; help find other professional resources like a book cover designer, typesetter, editor, indexer, proofreader, and copywriter; help in setting up a publishing business, getting the ISBN, help with printing and distribution.

You are responsible for finding and paying editors, a cover designer, a typesetter, and an ebook formatter (or doing it yourself, if you have the skill set).

I remember in my days as a typesetter in Germany, we always inserted a narrow space following quotation marks, and also set apart things, such as exclamation marks with some narrow spacing.

Professional typesetters can properly set type to alleviate these issues, but word processing software is unable to do so.