noun
definition
A person who sets type; a typesetter.
definition
One who, or that which, composes or sets in order.
example
I work as an image compositor.
Examples of compositor in a Sentence
In 1883 he was apprenticed to the trade of printer and compositor.
Having worked first as a mason and then as a compositor, he joined P. Dubois in the foundation of Le Globe which became in 1831 the official organ of the Saint-Simonian community, of which he became a prominent member.
He was an excellent compositor and pressman; his workmanship, clear impressions, black ink and comparative freedom from errata did much to get him the public printing in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and the printing of the paper money a and other public matters in Delaware.
As a source for the text it is superseded by the printed edition, and if there is more than one, then by the latest printed edition, which has been revised in proof by the author, or, in certain cases, by his representative; and the task of the textual critic is restricted to the detection of "misprints," in other words, of errors which the compositor (the modern analogue to the scribe) has made in "setting up" the manuscript, and which have escaped the notice of the proof-reader and the author or his representative.
These errors arise from the default of the scribe or copyist, and, in the case of printed books, the compositor.'
So in Triumph of Life, 265, "Whom from the flock of conquerors I Fame singled out for her thunderbearing minion," out seems to be due to the compositor.
One of the most vexed questions of textual criticism, and one which divides scholars more perhaps than any other, is the question to what extent admitted imperfections and inconsistencies may properly be left in a text as due to the default of an author rather than of a scribe or compositor.
He soon became an expert compositor, and after a time began to write anonymously for the Herald.
After some years of newspaper experience, first as compositor, then as reporter, during which he became an ardent revolutionist and joined the Fenian organization known as the Irish Republican Brotherhood, he enlisted in a British cavalry regiment with the purpose of winning over the troops to the revolutionary cause (1863).
At nineteen he became a working compositor; afterwards he rose to be a corrector for the press, reading proofs of ecclesiastical works, and thereby acquiring a very competent knowledge of theology.
It was during this period of expansion that Clark's claimed the distinction of having the first female compositor in Britain.
I The best compositor in the story, I thing, is Bruce Springfield, the Boss.
Nigel started work as an apprentice compositor in the printing trade and retrained many times in a rapidly changing industry.
The image compositor requires a matte, or alpha channel in the image for some operations.
We create the parent compositor that will contain the background image, ripple effect, Java text, and the spaceship compositor.
When the copy is in type a proof is struck off and sent to the reading closet, where the corrector of the press (see Proof-Reading), with the aid of a reading-boy, will compare it with the original MS. or copy, and mark all errors on the proof, so that they may be amended by the compositor at his own cost before it is despatched to the author or customer, who in turn revises or corrects it for the general improvement of the work.
Smart Compositor offers you a powerful tool to create expressive opening sequences or segues with pre-made masks, frames and moving paths.
Other investments in new technology were unsuccessful, including the doomed Paige Compositor, a typesetting machine quickly outpaced by the lithograph.
Amazingly, some of the Twains' original furnishings have been repurchased over the years and once more grace the home as well as one of the original Paige Compositor machines.