With the printing industry on the verge of a shift to mechanised typesetting, which relied on hot-lead-squirting machines of unparalleled complexity, the public developed an odd interest in seeing ...

The short film, Farewell — ETAOIN SHRDLU, produced in 1978 covers the very last day the New York Times was set for printing in the old way, using hot metal typesetting. We’ve covered the ...

In the 1970s and 1980s, typesetting languages were considerably more sophisticated than the word processors of the time. Today, many word processing programs provide most, if not all, of the ...

Manga translation and typesetting company Amimaru released a formal statement on Friday regarding pay rates for contractors, in response to accusations on social media that the company pays ...

It provides a thorough summary of all the additional features available in GNU groff, with more detail than presented here.) groff offers all the niceties of computerized typesetting, including ...

Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www ...

Much worse. As a typesetter I can’t even control any of this. There is no concept of typesetting a book for Kindle. It’s simply a text dump with some very basic formatting. Is this where we are?

Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www ...

LyX is a good program for typesetting large documents, particularly scientific documents. When one thinks of document editors, it’s usually Microsoft Word and Google Docs that come to mind.