He would stand beside the compositor while he was working at his case, and closely watch every movement of his hand in picking up each letter.
He said he could not make out how ever the compositor could keep the alphabetical order of each box in his memory.
He rather thinks that the compositor had placed an I instead of an L, and that the correct date ought to stand thus: M CCCC L XLI--1491.
In 1851, when William was fourteen, the family moved from the country to Columbus, where his father got employment as a clerk in the House of Representatives, and also as a compositor on the Ohio State Journal.
In 1857 the young man settled down in San Francisco as a compositor in the office of the Golden Era, a weekly periodical.
The successful Chinese compositor doesn't need to be so very intelligent, but he must be a good pedestrian.
But surely the compositor need not fear that the iron-handed automaton will snatch the bread out of his mouth.
Judge Graney had told him that if he succeeded in finding the compositor he would have him at the Kicker office this morning.
For fifteen months he served ascompositor in New York City and Philadelphia, then a great homesickness for the river came upon him.
General Job Composition= How the job compositor handles business stationery, programs and miscellaneous work.
First Steps in Job Composition= By Camille DeVéze Suggestions for the apprentice compositor in setting his first jobs, especially about the important little things which go to make good display in typography.
When that paper is removed it is a printed page, with the same words upon it that the compositorread upon the letter or written page sent in a little while ago.
When the mistakes are all marked, the compositorsets them right by putting in the proper letters and words, instead of the wrong ones, and then another impression is printed to see whether all is right this time.
Well, the compositor read the manuscript first, but how much good did that do the proof-reader?
The decision is left to the proof-reader, and even the best and most intelligent compositor simply can not always be sure that he is doing what the reader will decide to be right.
There being differences of opinion in this respect, however, compositor and proof-reader should learn what is wanted in the office where they are employed and act accordingly.
Again, the compositorhad practically no responsibility in the matter, though the one who shows most ability in setting his type clean from bad copy is a better workman than others, and correspondingly better assured of good employment.
In it the compositor measured for his bill absolutely everything for which a customer paid, be it a cut, a blank page, or anything else.
That same evening this compositor had some of the bad manuscript mentioned, and for what the writer had intended as “June freshets” the proof-reader found in his proof “Sierra forests.
Still, practical knowledge of imposition is really as necessary now to the fully competent compositor as it ever was, for with it he is enabled to undertake work that otherwise he can not do.
A first-class compositoris worthy of special favor, and generally gets it.
No matter what plan is followed in its preparation, copy should certainly go to the compositor in such shape that he can read it easily and follow it absolutely.
Reginald yawned, and walked off to watch a compositor picking up type out of a case.
I am respectable and fairly intelligent, and am at present employed as compositor in the Rocket newspaper-office.
If no one else cares, the compositor and proof reader will be interested to know that Ignacy Seczupakiewicz brought suit in Racine against Praxida Seczupakiewicz.
To the inspiredcompositor and proof reader of the York, Neb.
Perhaps the compositor at the adjacent machine can randmacnally it for Lizy.
The compositor needs to know the rules, but to remember always that they are only means by which to secure results.
First Steps in Job Composition= By Camille DeVéze Suggestions for the apprentice compositor in getting his first jobs, especially about the important little things which go to make good display in typography.
The length of the register being known in advance and nothing but spaces being used in setting the line, the compositor was spared much that makes composition at once a hard labor and a fine art.
This procedure will clear the compositorof all blame.
He will probably know nothing about the rules by which the compositor gains his results.
Footnote 44: A composing stick is a small tray which the compositor holds in his left hand and in which he arranges the type that he picks out of the cases with his right hand.
We can't alter them now, of course, but I'll speak to the compositor myself.
Each type is marked upon one side by slight nicks, by sight and touch of which the compositor is guided in rapidly placing them right side up in the line.
In the printing-offices we find women at work, not as compositors, but as compositors' assistants, darting from case to case about the room and selecting for the compositor the ideographs that he needs in his work.
Your compositor must feel aggrieved by the rejection of these clearly written documents, without erasures, and on one side only.
The compositor showed Bobby how he could tell when the letters were right side up by feeling the nicks in the type, without the necessity of looking; how he used the leads to space between the lines.
Then they watched the compositorsetting type in the metal "stick" with the sliding end.
He then entered a printing office as compositor and began his literary career by composing his first articles in type while working at the case.
He returned to San Francisco and became compositorin the office of The Golden Era.
The compositor sets his types without looking at them; the mathematician solves problems "by inspection," and a well-known physiologist told me he had seen a man read a book while he kept three balls in the air.
For the last century a struggle has been in progress between the machine compositor and the human compositor, mechanical ingenuity against eye and brains.
They meet thecompositor more than half-way, and simplify his labour while hugely increasing his productiveness.
Roughly described, they are to the compositor what a typewriter is to a clerk--forming words in obedience to the depression of keys on a keyboard.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "compositor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
