Crossword clues for typesetter
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Typesetter \Type"set`ter\, n. One who, or that which, sets type; a compositor; a machine for setting type.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A person who sets type. Formerly an employee in a printshop who manually selected pieces of moveable type and assembled them for printing.
WordNet
n. one who sets written material into type [syn: compositor, setter, typographer]
Usage examples of "typesetter".
New York tabloid an old typesetter punched out the letters of the short news story.
I caught it in galleys and in-setted the line or two and then the typesetter ignored the correction.
Mr Bloom stood by, hearing the loud throbs of cranks, watching the silent typesetters at their cases.
They had nothing left that I wanted to borrow, and so I dropped them and fell in with a group of typesetters who ultimately betrayed me as well.
You think of your readers, those carrion feeders, and all your typesetters, those wretched abettors, and saber-whetters.
If the manuscript is sloppy at the Outset, the editor will never pass it on to the copyeditor and typesetter.
I think it was just, you know, editorial brain farts on the part of the typesetters.
Through this, Williams, the languid typesetter, peered up at intervals from the vast cryptic crossword he was composing to catch the latest philippic directed towards a certain newly arrived police inspectre.