In 19th-century typesetting by hand, the race went to the “Swifts.” That was their nickname: journeymen printers of America’s press who were marvels at what is now virtually a lost art. Letter by ...

A set of format codes embedded in a document that are used to instruct a printer or imagesetter (typesetter) how to print each character, line and paragraph. In the 1970s and 1980s, typesetting ...