componer-4
impose ; impose + type ; set ; set + type ; compose ; set in + type.
Although most London book houses owned galley presses for making slip proofs by the 1870, it appears that companionship bookwork was generally made up into pages and imposed before proofing until the mid 1880s.
The trouble lay in the difficulty of imposing type on a curved surface.
The clicker paid each man according to what he had set, keeping for himself a share equal to that of the most productive hand.
It was usual to set type in the way that has just been described, but the old printers were men, not abstractions, who had good days and bad ones.
Until the mid seventeenth century compositors generally sat to their work, but from then on it became more usual to compose standing up, an easier position for fast work.
Preparation and casting off completed, the copy was given out to individual compositors for setting in type.
componer en + Tipo de Letra
set in + Tipo de Letra
Books in English began to be set in roman from the late 1550s, although the Bible survived in 'black letter' until 1640.
componer tipográficamente [Verbo irregular: pasado y participio typeset]
typeset
The output may be in the form of line printer output, or may be computer typeset and presented in a form more akin to a conventionally printed index.
componer tipográficamente por ordenador
computer typeset
The output may be in the form of line printer output, or may be computer typeset and presented in a form more akin to a conventionally printed index.
componer una página
set + page
A single bill was made out, and each man took an equal share of the payment, regardless of how many pages he had set; deductions were made only for failings such as unpunctuality.
máquina de componer en caliente
hot-metal composing machine
hot-metal machine
But damp paper was still preferred for much ordinary printing until late in the nineteenth century, partly because it evened out the minor inequalities of used type in the days before the introduction of hot-metal composing machines which cast type afresh for each job.
They were cold-metal machines, which set pre-cast type, as distinct from the later hot-metal machines which cast fresh type as they went along.
máquina de componer en frío
cold-metal machine
cold-metal composing machine
They were cold-metal machines, which set pre-cast type, as distinct from the later hot-metal machines which cast fresh type as they went along.
Few nineteenth-century book printers used cold-metal composing machines.
regla de componer
setting rule
He lifted about five lines from the top of the nearest page on a setting rule and balanced it on his left hand, with the face of the letter towards him and the last line uppermost.
