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  • Language: English

    Published by OmniScriptum, 2026

    613464949X / 9786134649490

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    Seller: preigu, Osnabrück, Germanypreigu

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    Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Sort (Typesetting) | Letterpress Printing, Typesetting | Lambert M. Surhone (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2026 | OmniScriptum | EAN 9786134649490 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.

  • Language: English

    Published by OmniScriptum, 2026

    6132772723 / 9786132772725

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    Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Typesetting | Sort (typesetting), Letterpress printing, Plaster of Paris, Papier mâché, Hot metal typesetting, Linotype machine, Monotype | Frederic P. Miller (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2026 | OmniScriptum | EAN 9786132772725 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.

  • Language: English

    Published by Omniscriptum, 2026

    613464949X / 9786134649490

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    Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, GermanyAHA-BUCH GmbH

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    Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articlesavailable from Wikipedia or other free sources online. In typesetting byhand compositing, a sort is a piece of type representing a particularletter or symbol, cast from a matrix mould and assembled with othersorts bearing additional letters into lines of type to make up a formefrom which a page is printed. Typesetting is the composition of textmaterial by means of types. Typesetting requires the prior process ofdesigning a font and storing it in some manner. Typesetting is theretrieval of the stored letters (called sorts in mechanical systems andglyphs in digital systems) and the ordering of them according to alanguage's orthography for visual display.

  • Language: English

    Published by Omniscriptum, 2010

    6132772723 / 9786132772725

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    Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, GermanyAHA-BUCH GmbH

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    Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articlesavailable from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Typesetting isthe composition of text material by means of types. Typesetting requiresthe prior process of designing a font and storing it in some manner.Typesetting is the retrieval of the stored letters (called sorts inmechanical systems and glyphs in digital systems) and the ordering ofthem according to a language's orthography for visual display. Duringthe letterpress era, moveable type was composed by hand for each page.Cast metal sorts were composited into words and lines of text andtightly bound together to make up a page image called a forme, with allletter faces exactly the same height to form an even surface of type.The forme was mounted in a press, inked, and an impression made onpaper. Phototypesetting or 'cold type' systems first appeared in theearly 1960s and rapidly displaced continuous casting machines. Thesedevices consisted of glass disks (one per font) that spun in front of alight source which selectively exposed characters onto light-sensitivepaper.