The compositor takes the letter blocks from the compartments and places them in a composing stick, working from left to right and placing the letters upside down with the nick to the top, then sets the assembled type in a galley.
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In the industrial age, composing sticks were manufactured by many companies, but notably in America by the H . B . Rouse company, which made composing sticks that were adjustable to the half agates as well, to aid in newspaper and advertisement composition.
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In the industrial age, composing sticks were manufactured by many companies, but notably in America by the H . B . Rouse company, which made composing sticks that were adjustable to the half agates as well, to aid in newspaper and advertisement composition.
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The compositor takes the pieces of type 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.
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She wrote the " I'll be Better " ( bg�f } Y ) lyric in her album H2H . Her self-composed Stick to You ( ϞϞϞϞ ) from her latest album Sticky ( ϞϞϞϞ ) was chosen as opening theme for her latest drama [ Love Keeps Going ].
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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.
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Then I got my first Macintosh, and discovered that typing two spaces after the period is not appropriate in proportionally-spaced type . ( Which I should have known anyway, because I belonged to the high-school printing club and learned how to set type by hand in a composing stick ).
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As seen in the photo of the composing stick, a lower case'q'looks like a'd', a lower case'b'looks like a'p', a lower case'p'looks like a'b'and a lower case'd'looks like a'q '.
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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.
