Letting ideas flow into your next presentation, paper or book.
Markdown meets the power of LaTeX in this modern typesetting system.
Letting ideas flow into your next presentation, paper or book.
Markdown meets the power of LaTeX in this modern typesetting system.
Damn typesetting sounds like such a cool term. Makes me think you’re picking up each letter and putting them… actually wait is that literally what it used to mean? Putting letters in a printing press?
Yes, and it was a renowned job up until the late 90s/early 2000s. The job transformed drastically in the early 80s with upcoming new techniques (e.g. phototypesetting, the predecessor to digital typeset).
Without typesetters, a major role in terms of grammar and design checks broke away. This isn’t the only factor, but since early 2000s, typos where everywhere.
I’m a designer and I never thought of how it influences typos, that’s a neat tidbit