bát chữ

Công việc của ông ấy là bát chữ cho nhà in.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • Composition (in typography): The process or act of arranging and setting type for printing. This is a technical term from the field of printing and typography, referring to the manual or mechanical assembly of individual letters, characters, and spaces to form text ready for printing.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Công việc của ông ấy là bát chữ cho nhà in. (His job is composition for the printing house.)
  • Trước khi có máy tính, bát chữ là một công việc thủ công rất tỉ mỉ. (Before computers, composition was a very meticulous manual job.)

Advanced Usage

• "thợ bát chữ": compositor, typesetter.
  • Người thợ bát chữ già lành nghề. (The old, skilled compositor.)

Variants and Related Words

• Sắp chữ: This is a more modern and commonly used synonym for bát chữ, also meaning "typesetting" or "composition."
  • Phần mềm sắp chữ. (Typesetting software.)

Synonyms

• Sắp chữ: typesetting, composition.
• Dàn trang: page layout, makeup (a related but broader term that includes composition as part of the process).