componer4

⁴ = impose, impose + type, set, set + type, compose, set in + type.

Ex. 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.

Ex. The trouble lay in the difficulty of imposing type on a curved surface.

Ex. The clicker paid each man according to what he had set, keeping for himself a share equal to that of the most productive hand.

Ex. 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.

Ex. 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.

Ex. Preparation and casting off completed, the copy was given out to individual compositors for setting in type.

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* componer en + Tipo de Letra = set in + Tipo de Letra.

* componer tipográficamente = typeset.

* componer tipográficamente por ordenador = computer typeset.

* componer una página = set + page.

* máquina de componer en caliente = hot-metal composing machine, hot-metal machine.

* maquina de componer en frío = cold-metal machine, cold-metal composing machine.

* regla de componer = setting rule.