Typesetting once literally meant the setting of type, that is, the arrangement by hand or machine of narrow slugs of metal, usually lead, bearing on their ends the raised images of individual characters. A readable text was produced when the set type...

Typesetting involves the presentation of textual material in graphic form on paper or some other medium. Before the advent of desktop publishing, typesetting of printed material was produced in print shops by compositors working by hand, and later with...

A decade ago, predictions were being made (in the pages of this magazine and other places as well) about the application of personal computers to type-setting. At that time, micros were seen more as input and editing tools than as typesetting terminals with...

Typesetting: Streamlining your interface procedures What a conincidence: My Folio: editor is expecting something witty and intelligent about streamlining your interface procedures--and at this very minute I am working with an interface. This old dog of a computer that I keep at...

Mary Ellen Solt, who used letter and word arrangements to enhance the meaning of a poem and was a leader in the "concrete poetry" movement, has died. She was 86.Solt died June 21 in Santa Clarita after a stroke, her family said.Her most popular work,...

After being sued by J.K. Rowling, a publisher has agreed to delay its plans to release an encyclopedic reference work on the fictitious world of the Harry Potter novels.RDR Books Publisher Roger Rapoport said he volunteered to halt typesetting on the planned "Harry Potter Lexicon"...