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Another variant of hot metal typesetting was stereotyping, where an entire page (or more often, a series of pages called a forme) were assembled and a papier-mache matrix was created from this. The ensuing matrix could be curved, so that plates could be used on a rotary press or flat for the slower flat bed presses. The nature of text printed via the hot-metal method is notably different than that produced by the Phototypesetting processes that followed it. As the lead type used to print a page had been directly formed from the Type Matrix a good fidelity to the original was achieved. Phototypesetting suffered (at least in its early days) from many problems relating to Optical Distortion and misalignment. These disappointing results were a thorn in the sides of many authors and readers (especially of complex or mathematical texts that had many small sub and superscripts). A desire to recreate the aesthetic qualities of hot-lead spurred Donald Knuth to create one of the first general purpose outline based font computer typesetting program, TEX . SEE ALSO |
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