composing stick

I left him to his job case and composing stick.

To see in your dreams a composing stick, foretells that difficult problems will disclose themselves, and you will be at great trouble to meet them.

In 1971, he authored Disquisition on the Composing Stick.

Once a line has been completed, the composing stick is inserted into the Ludlow machine, which clamps it firmly in place above the mold.

Other early composing sticks were fixed to the width of a newspaper column, when newspapers were still composited by hand.

The Ludlow system uses molds, known as matrices or mats, which are hand-set into a special composing stick.

An early editor dropped several pieces of type on the floor, and upon returning them to his composing stick, randomly spelled out the word "jimplecute".

Composing sticks were manufactured by many companies, but notably by the H.B. Rouse company.

He was also the author of a book, "Disquisition on the Composing Stick" published by Typophiles Inc. in 1971.

They made composing sticks that were adjustable to the half pica, as well as a stick containing a micrometer that was infinitely adjustable.

Grover Galley is the crack-brained editor (he got struck with a printing press's composing stick, which "scattered his type") of the Desert Denouncer newspaper.

The letters are cast metal sorts, and visitors are shown by the compositor how to set this movable type by hand into a metal composing stick.

One thing an operator has to make sure of is that the line is solidly locked down with no gaps between the mats, and the composing stick in its proper place.

Traditionally, as in manual composition, it involves selecting the individual type letters from a type case, placing them in a composing stick, which holds several lines, then transferring those to a larger type galley.

The standard Intertype could cast faces up to thirty point and they also offered a "Composing Stick Attachment" that allowed their caster to be used to cast headlines up to 60 points.

Some composing sticks had one adjustable end allowing the length of the lines and consequent width of the page or column to be set, with spaces of different sizes being used to make up the exact width.

The compositor takes the letter blocks from the boxes (compartments) of the type case and places them in the composing stick, working from left to right and placing the letters upside down with the nick to the top.

In letterpress printing and typesetting, a composing stick is an instrument used to assemble pieces of metal type into words and lines which are later bound into a forme, set in a galley and printed.

The name of the machine comes from the fact that it produces an entire line of metal type at once, hence a line-o'-type, a significant improvement over the previous industry standard, i.e., manual, letter-by-letter typesetting using a composing stick and drawers of letters.

Individual letters are assembled into words and lines of text with the aid of a composing stick, and the whole assembly is tightly bound together to make up a page image called a forme, where all letter faces are exactly the same height to form a flat surface of type.