set type

to arrange type for printing; to prepare finished pages for printing. Have you finished setting the type for page one yet? John sets type for a living.

See also: set, type

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As the time passed, he had come to set type for the little revolutionary sheet they published weekly.

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His invention, the linotype, allowed one person to set type for printing by simply pressing keys on a keyboard, bypassing four different operations at much greater speeds.

U.S. Census Bureau Daily Feature for May 11

After a lesson showing students the formal letter spacing rules and how to set type properly, the students were instructed to set down a thin baseline using a sharp 4H pencil on tracing paper, and then proceed to trace the letters they needed for their pangram from the sample, keeping in mind that their text would eventually be integrated with their illustrations.

Pangrams: integrating text with images

Julie Hilton, ChildLine Schools Service manager for the West Midlands, said: "There is no set type of volunteer and no previous experience of working with children is required.

Helping keep our kids safe from harm

There's always a set type of people doing their shopping according to the time or the day, whether it's pensioners holding everyone up or screeching kids," Horrocks warned.

Chavtastic TV Jane is talking total Horrocks

But she moaned: "There's always a set type of people doing their shopping according to the time or the day, whether it's pensioners holding everyone up, or screeching kids.

A GROCER INSULT; Supermarket ads star brands tesco customers 'chavs'

We were also shown how to set type in the traditional method.

CARL'S DONATION IS OF A DIFFERENT TYPE; Print heritage for university

He taught me how to set type, and then I started to see the beauty of typography and letter forms.

The next chapter: from Anthony Caro's crumpled bronze slabs to Cai Guo-Qiang's bound firecracker, artists' books have evolved since the copperplate engravings of William Blake into mercurial works that explode the boundaries between publishing and fine art

Single-form triads of the COST COST COST and SET SET SET type are, of course, also barred.

Highly irregular verbs

It took X number of days to bind a magazine in those days, Y to print, Z to set type, etc.

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A print shop display featuring 18th-century equipment and an opportunity to learn how to set type.

In search of our favorite founding father

Straight off the shell almost any new laptop can now set type in hundreds of languages--African, Asian, Austronesian, Native American, and even European--in which the literary tradition has scarcely been touched by earlier methods of typefounding and printing.

Book culture: why there are pages and why they must turn: books are not confined to their material instantiations. They are present in oral as well as written cultures. Indeed, they appear to be, for the human species, a cultural universal

The small set type has been called "postural" or "positional" while the multiverb type has also been called "positional" or "dispositional".

The typology and semantics of locative predicates: posturals, positionals, and other beasts

The spatial distribution of catches by set type for bigeye and skipjack tuna are provided in Figures 1 and 2.

The potential use of time-area closures to reduce catches of bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus) in the purse-seine fishery of the eastern Pacific Ocean