Typesetting

Typesetting is the composition of text by means of arranging physical types or the digital equivalents. Stored letters and other symbols (called sorts in mechanical systems and glyphs in digital systems) are retrieved and ordered according to a language's orthography for visual display. Typesetting requires the prior process of designing a font (which is widely but erroneously confused with and substituted for typeface). One significant effect of typesetting was that authorship of works could be spotted more easily; making it difficult for copiers who have not gained permission.

Pre-Digital era

Manual typesetting

During much of the letterpress era, movable type was composed by hand for each page. Cast metal sorts were composed into words, then lines, then paragraphs, then pages of text and tightly bound together to make up a form, with all letter faces exactly the same “height to paper”, creating an even surface of type. The form was placed in a press, inked, and an impression made on paper.

'Typesetter' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Nechte to na mne (1955)

Actors: Jan Kohout (editor), Martin Fric (director), Ota Motycka (actor), Martin Fric (writer), Milos Forman (writer), Stella Zázvorková (actress), Zdenka Baldová (actress), Vladimír Repa (actor), Frantisek Paul (actor), Lubomír Lipský (actor), Theodor Pistek (actor), Václav Trégl (actor), Frantisek Kreuzmann (actor), Oldrich Nový (actor), Fanda Mrázek (actor),

Genres: Comedy,

News Hounds (1947)

Actors: Ernie Adams (actor), John Hamilton (actor), William 'Billy' Benedict (actor), Eddie Dunn (actor), Ralph Dunn (actor), Anthony Caruso (actor), John Elliott (actor), Gabriel Dell (actor), Bernard Gorcey (actor), David Gorcey (actor), Leo Gorcey (actor), Buddy Gorman (actor), Thornton Edwards (actor), Huntz Hall (actor), Bobby Jordan (actor),

Plot: Slip and Sach are working for a local newspaper as a reporter and photographer, respectively. Slip wants to get the goods on a local gambling ring that is fixing sporting events, so he and Sach go undercover to expose the ring. Unfortunately, their eagerness has unforeseen consequences when the leader of the criminal gang slaps a $4-million libel suit on the newspaper.

Keywords: bowery-boys, boxer, corruption, deception, editor, fight, gambling, gangster, lawsuit, libel
Genres: Comedy,

Le crime de Monsieur Lange (1936)

Actors: Claire Gérard (actress), Marcel Lévesque (actor), Florelle (actress), Maurice Baquet (actor), Edmond Beauchamp (actor), Guy Decomble (actor), René Lefèvre (actor), Paul Demange (actor), Yves Deniaud (actor), Jacques B. Brunius (actor), Jules Berry (actor), Henri Guisol (actor), René Génin (actor), Odette Talazac (actress), Jean Dasté (actor),

Plot: A man and a woman arrive in a cafe-hotel near the belgian frontier. The customers recognize the man from the police's description. His name is Amedee Lange, he murdered Batala in Paris. His lady friend Valentine tells the whole story : Lange was an employee in Batala's little printing works. Batala was a real bastard, swindling every one, seducing female workers of Valentine's laundry... One day he fled to avoid facing his creditors, and the workers set up a cooperative to go on working. But the plot is less important that the description of the atmosphere just before the Popular Front.