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Typesetting
Composition of text by means of arranging physical types or digital equivalents / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Text formatting" redirects here. For other uses, see Formatted text.
"Booksetting" redirects here. For a multi-volume work, see Bookset.
For broader coverage of this topic, see Typography.
Typesetting is the composition of text for publication, display, or distribution by means of arranging physical type (or sort) in mechanical systems or glyphs in digital systems representing characters (letters and other symbols).[1] Stored types are retrieved and ordered according to a language's orthography for visual display. Typesetting requires one or more fonts (which are widely but erroneously confused with and substituted for typefaces). 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.[2]
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