Word: typesetting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...story to an outsider turns you off, consider self-publishing. It can be a time-consuming option, forcing you to deal with production, distribution and marketing. But self-publishing is one way to keep a book truly your own. An alternative is a vanity press, which will edit, design, typeset and print your book, and then bill you for the services--all of which can cost tens of thousands of dollars...
...more than 600 basic commands. Most of them are named, sometimes abbreviated, after their functions. For example, the command "\centerline" centers the line of text that follows it. "\bf" means the words should be typeset in bold face like this...
...what people used to produce books and newspapers before the invention of the Laserwriter. At Garfield, we would send our files through a large series of cables and buffers to a machine about the size of a refrigerator turned over on its side. The machine would spit out neatly typeset copy onto a canister of photographic paper, which we would then feed through a developer and hang up to dry. At least, that's how it was supposed to work. But typesetters are not as simple as Laserwriters, and whatever could go wrong usually...
...typesetting error," Messing said yesterday in a telephone interview from Continental's Houston headquarters. "The ad ran correctly the previous day in the [Boston] Globe. But it was re-typeset, and somehow a one got dropped along...
Enter competition in recent years mouse wielding of Macintosh users have become accustomed to making daily choices among typefaces. Do-it-yourself desktop publication of resumes, business cards, newsletters, and reports prevents trained specialties from exercising any control over the look of many typeset document...