filmsetting

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of filmset

plural filmsettings

1. uncountableusuallyPhotocomposition of type.

   In filmsetting it is almost impossible to define where 'widows' will occur when copy marking or setting at the keyboard.

   2007, John Lewis, Typography: Design and Practice, →ISBN, page 110

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   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.

   1968, Dorothy A. Harrop, Modern book production, page 59

   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.

   1979, E. L. Dellow, A First Course in Proof Correcting, page 110

   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.

   2006, Simon Loxley, Type: The Secret History of Letters, →ISBN, page 183