typeset

UK/ˈtaɪpˌsɛt/US/ˈtaɪpˌsɛt/

verbC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #15,228 of 15,258Too rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Other forms: typesetting, typesets

To typeset is to arrange text in its final printed form. Typeset the book, beautifully typeset, typeset in Garamond.

It was done by hand with metal letters for four hundred years and is now done by software, though the craft judgements are the same. Good typesetting is invisible, which is why nobody notices it until it is bad.

Definitions of typeset

1verbtypesetTo arrange text in its final printed form.C1
“Once the author approves the final text, the book will be typeset and sent to the printer.”

typeset is a arranging.

Where it comes from

Type plus set, from setting metal type by hand.

From type + set.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in News & Communication

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typeset in the wild

A formula editor, also known as an equation editor, is a computer program that is used to typeset mathematical formulas and mathematical expressions.
Formula editor
While the daily ran as a single panel with a typeset caption, it expanded every Sunday as a full multi-panel strip with balloons.
Herman (comic strip)
Anxious Records (sometimes typeset as AnXious) was a record label set up by David A.
Anxious Records
A preface is often signed (and the date and place of writing often follow the typeset signature); a foreword by another person is always signed.
Preface
More recently, a slug can be an entire line of Linotype typeset matter, where a single piece of lead has been cast bearing a line of text.
Slug (typesetting)

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