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by kazinator 928 days ago
Ask a typesetter? No thank you.

What is a typesetter? Someone or something which takes tree-structured sentences, cranks them into a linear sequence of words, which is arbitrarily chopped into a rectangular form, with the goal being that the rectangle appear evenly gray from a distance. Sometimes ugly hyphens are inserted into the middle of tokens.