typesetting
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thumb|right|upright=1.35|Movable type on a [[composing stick on a type case]] thumb|bottom|A specimen sheet issued by William Caslon, letter founder, from the 1728 edition of CyclopaediaTypesetting is the composition of text for publication, display, or distribution by means of arranging physical type (or sort) in mechanical systems or glyphs in digital systems representing characters (letters and other symbols). Stored types are retrieved and ordered according to a language's orthography for visual display. Typesetting requires one or more fonts (which are widely but erroneously confused with
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13 sectionsContents
- Pre-digital era
- Manual typesetting<span class="anchor" id="Movable type"></span>
- Hot metal typesetting
- Phototypesetting
- Digital era
- SCRIPT variants
- SGML and XML systems
- Troff and successors
- TeX and LaTeX
- TeX-inspired text formatters
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|right|upright=1.35|Movable type on a [[composing stick on a type case]] thumb|bottom|A specimen sheet issued by William Caslon, letter founder, from the 1728 edition of CyclopaediaTypesetting is the composition of text for publication, display, or distribution by means of arranging physical type (or sort) in mechanical systems or glyphs in digital systems representing characters (letters and other symbols). Stored types are retrieved and ordered according to a language's orthography for visual display. Typesetting requires one or more fonts (which are widely but erroneously confused with and substituted for typefaces). One significant effect of typesetting was that authorship of works could be spotted more easily, making it difficult for copiers who have not gained permission.
==Pre-digital era== ===Manual typesetting===