What's the difference between typesetter and typesetting?

Typesetter


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, sets type; a compositor; a machine for setting type.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In fact, Dreyer's adoptive parents, Carl and Marie Dreyer - a freethinking leftist typesetter and a wife who already had an illegitimate daughter by another man - never set foot inside a church unless they had to, and their adopted son was a non-believer who attended occasional services at a French reform church, but only in order to teach himself the language.
  • (2) Social work with adults will never join the typesetter in the occupational dustbin of history, but the quality of service and sometimes, the very lives of vulnerable adults, are at stake.
  • (3) Every class of society was represented, from the Scottish nobility to the typesetters who worked alongside Snare in Reading and remembered his life-or-death passion for the portrait.
  • (4) Take the case of Andy Forbes, a former typesetter and computer programmer.
  • (5) The study population was 1261 typesetters, employed in 1961 and followed until the end of 1984; this was a cohort of convenience, assembled as a comparison for a different study.
  • (6) "It's too early to say whether action will be taken against the typesetters, but we will still use them.
  • (7) HarperCollins, which runs the 4th Estate imprint, said the crucial mistake happened when a small Scottish typesetter, Palimpsest, sent "the last but one version" of the book file to the printers.
  • (8) The 4 groups were as follows; workers routinely engaged in both VDT work and key-punch work at a printing company (A-1 group), researchers or office workers handling VDT irregularly at a chemical company (B-1 group), typesetters at a printing company (A-2 group), and office workers at a chemical company (B-2 group).
  • (9) So it is particularly unfortunate that, thanks to an apparent mistake by his typesetters, the version published in Britain has been found to be littered with errors.
  • (10) After all, a typesetter could have been called a page grinder, a print poser or even a big yellow cheese, it wouldn't have made a difference to the work they actually did.

Typesetting


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or art of setting type.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The text is clearly not typeset, but word-processed.
  • (2) The system, called Computerized Typesetting System (CTS), has been introduced.
  • (3) He was susceptible to get-rich-quick schemes: the ventures he invested in and promoted – even as he was writing his greatest books – included vineyards, a steam generator, a steam pulley, a watch company, an insurance company, marine telegraphy, a food supplement called Plasmon, a chalk engraving process called Kaolatype, self-adjusting suspenders and the Paige typesetting machine, which bankrupted him at the height of his fame and forced him back on to the lecture circuit to pay his debts, in part, it's been suggested, to protect the value of his "honourable" brand.
  • (4) Modern technology has made the skill of typesetting, once crucial to the printing process by placing individual lead type into wooden frames to lay out a page, obsolete.
  • (5) As foreign language medical documents become increasingly available in computer-readable form through computerized typesetting, electronic publishing, and improved optical character recognition equipment, automated translation systems may provide a rapid and inexpensive means of obtaining draft translations.
  • (6) Eleven college students who were born blind, 16 blinded at approximately 15 years of age (range 6 to 30 years), and 16 with normal vision were asked to visualize the letters of the uppercase, typeset, English alphabet.
  • (7) As foreign language medical documents and medical records become increasingly available in computer readable form through word processing, computerized typesetting and hospital information systems, computer translation methods may provide a rapid and inexpensive means of obtaining draft translations.
  • (8) He typeset the story on his computer and had it bound at the local print shop.
  • (9) The result is an editorial environment unlike any I've previously seen - light years from the smoke-filled newsrooms I first worked in, with typewriters chained to desks and pneumatic Lamson tubes or conveyor belts for sending copy for typesetting.
  • (10) While camera-ready proceedings had a significantly higher mean impact factor (2.37) than typeset proceedings (0.66, p less than .02), selection based on printing method is not recommended.
  • (11) Orwell therefore had to produce new, fictitious slogans which would take up exactly the same amount of space because of the inflexibility of lead typesetting - and complained that the book had been "ruined".
  • (12) Unlike typesetting, the social work role has not been usurped by modern life – indeed it is more needed than ever before.

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