Filmsetting
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Filmsetting is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of filmset.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of filmset.
More Meanings
- Photocomposition of type.
Example Sentences
In filmsetting it is almost impossible to define where 'widows' will occur when copy marking or setting at the keyboard.
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.
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.
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.
Word Forms
- filmsettings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include photocomposition, photosetter, phototype, composition, photomatic, photoboard.
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