In 19th-century typesetting by hand, the race went to the “Swifts.” That was their nickname: journeymen printers of America’s press who were marvels at what is now virtually a lost art. Letter by ...

A set of format codes embedded in a document that are used to instruct a printer or imagesetter (typesetter) how to print each character, line and paragraph. In the 1970s and 1980s, typesetting ...

With the invention of a computerized laser photocomposition system for Chinese character typesetting, he proved to the world that Chinese people could independently realize the historic change from ...

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