filmsetting

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English

Verb

filmsetting

  1. present participle and gerund of filmset

Noun

filmsetting (usually uncountable, plural filmsettings)

  1. Photocomposition of type.
    • 1968, Dorothy A. Harrop, Modern book production, page 59:
      There is too, at this point in time, an aesthetic disadvantage to filmsetting in that the range of type faces specially designed for it is still extremely limited.
    • 1979, E. L. Dellow, A First Course in Proof Correcting, page 110:
      However, filmsettings are sometimes made deliberately over size, with the intention that they shall be photographically reduced - some of the machines cannot cope with type sizes smaller than about eight or ten point.
    • 2006, Simon Loxley, Type: The Secret History of Letters, →ISBN, page 183:
      But on the filmsetting machine, the matrix case, which on the hot-metal caster had contained metal matrices, now contained tiny photographic negatives of each character.
    • 2007, John Lewis, Typography: Design and Practice, →ISBN, page 110:
      In filmsetting it is almost impossible to define where 'widows' will occur when copy marking or setting at the keyboard.
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