It was his task to find the printers, buy the paper, and hire the qualified compositorsfor setting the type.
From the glass closet where they waited for the "pages," they could see the compositors bending over the forms.
It seemed to him strange that the same compositors who set up these papers should set up the Pilgrim.
That day the force of compositors was increased by four men, and the paper was for the first time printed on a Hoe double-cylinder press, run by steam-power, and capable of producing six thousand impressions an hour.
Twenty-one compositors were regularly employed, and the average weekly composition bill was five hundred dollars.
Six compositors were employed then; now there are one hundred and forty-seven.
Twelve compositors were regularly employed this year, and the weekly composition bill was two hundred dollars.
Ten compositors were employed, and the weekly composition bill averaged one hundred and sixty dollars.
Many years ago, Mr. Brown conceived the idea of employing females as compositors in the Globe printing office, which caused a "strike" amongst the men.
The Patriot newspaper was printed there, and the compositors and press-men not only of that office, but of nearly all the newspaper offices in the city, were busily occupied in removing the type and presses downstairs.
Rules for Compositors and Readers at the University Press, Oxford," also edited by Hart (with the advice of Sir James Murray and Dr.
Hart, Horace: Rules forCompositors and Readers at the University Press, Oxford; 23rd ed.
Horace Hart: Rules forCompositors and Readers at the University Press, Oxford: 23rd ed.
Not only did the compositors place obstacles in the way, but the system itself presented difficulties which neither John Walter nor any subsequent experimenter has been able to surmount.
Almost every one who has stood in a printing-office watching compositors set type must have sometimes asked himself, why not have whole words cast together, instead of obliging the printer to pick up each letter separately?
With us the "day" ofcompositors and pressmen is differently calculated.
In the room, lighted by two windows, the compositors work.
The compositors set down their sticks with a jerk and say, "Oh, my land!
There was indeed the sound of shouting in the street, and a little group of compositors and pressmen was forming in the hall below and nerving itself to action.
The standing position of compositors weakens the organs of digestion; but compositors can as well sit as stand.
Compositors are not paid by the thousand ems, as in the United States, but receive weekly wages, which are seldom more than eight or ten dollars.
Six or seven compositors are a sufficient force for the largest office, as the type used is seldom smaller than brevier, and more often long primer.
Now, it is clear that the state could not bind itself to put presses and compositors at the service of every one of its citizens who was anxious to see himself in print.
This, he goes on to argue, will, despite all my objections, be found to depend on ordinary manual labour, of which the labour of the hands of the compositors is that which concerns us most.
It is due to the special directions under which the labour of the compositors is performed.
There is plenty of manipulating power in the great body of compositors to effect these changes.
A Japanese newspaper man (his paper is printed in English) tells me that linotype compositors set only half as many ems per hour as in America.
With much the same feeling the old-time hand compositors looked upon the coming of the typesetting machine.
No one in the composing-room said anything; but those compositors who had started to go home began slipping off their overcoats, and every one stood with his eyes fixed on the door.
The compositors were standing idle in the composing-room, and their foreman was talking with the night editor.
They contrived to have two of the men employed by Walter as compositors apprehended as deserters from the Royal Navy.
The compositors and the pressmen purposely battered the letters in the absence of their employers.
Several hours of miscellaneous consultative pottering had passed between Darius and hiscompositors round and about the new printing machine, which was once more plumb and ready for action.
The doors opened, and there appeared at one door the compositors and pressmen; at the other, Madame Hormuth with her children.
I did not mean to convey the impression that "women, already good compositors should work for a cent less per thousand ems than men," and I rejoice most heartily that Typographical Union No.
Three compositors lost their sight and the little French that they knew.
TAKE--A portion of copy of one article or job that has been divided between several compositors to hasten its composition.
Many careless compositors persist in correcting lines on the galley in a puttering, botchy manner which results in badly justified lines.
In some fonts the difference is so slight that experienced compositors may not always be sure to distinguish them, while other fonts have these six small capitals marked with an extra nick.
Some compositors call the 3-space a thick space, ignoring the fact that the 3-space is normal, neither thick nor thin.
Some job compositors handle small forms with the top line along the lower rim of the galley.
This is not the way experienced compositors do, however.
Many compositors insert the composing rule at the top of the first line while lifting the lines out of the stick, as the rule gives a good surface by which to take hold of the matter.
Too often it is the work of machine-thinking operators rather than of intelligent compositors trained to use the machine to increase their product and make it of better effect and worth.
Hand compositors now do a great deal of correcting and page make-up on type set by machines.
Many compositors have a habit of wide-spacing a line which happens to have a few words in it, with the evident aim to make these few words fill the line as much as possible.
When justifying lines some compositorscommence respacing at one end of the line and increase the spaces in order till the line is full, regardless of the length of the words or the word endings, repeating this line after line.
Besides, the foreman says it disturbs the compositors in the next room.
Get the compositors all together, and make a rush at him.
The fact that we were as much to blame as the compositors he managed, with extremely clever wording, to make us feel, though he did not say so.
The only bit of all our work that our compositors saved was this poem to Joubert.
When it came to time to go to press we regularly and daily observed that we had not only overlooked errors enough to wreck our reputations, but that the compositors had failed to correct many of those which we had marked.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "compositors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
