[1855–60; type + setting]This word is first recorded in the period 1855–60. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: barrage, keyword, lavabo, output, superheat
Examples of 'typesetting' in a sentence
typesetting
His volumes (physically unhandsome, in a rebarbative print-ondemand format, with cramped typesetting) are reader-unfriendly.
The Times Literary Supplement (2017)
The chapels did refuse to accept computer typesetting.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The typesetting of the book also jars, with line gaps between every paragraph and a rather idiosyncratic bibliographical layout.
The Times Literary Supplement (2015)
Visitors can be a printer's apprentice, and try their hand at typesetting and mechanical printing.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Successful typefaces span radically different typesetting technologies, and often survive the companies that first published them.