I took a course called Typesetting and Book Design and we actually set things in monotype. You really can get the p’s and q’s mixed up. Even poetry, which was an SOB. WonderYoung ful experience. workers in the industry don’t have any idea how it used to be before everything got adjusted automatically when you made one correction, like the proof is a spreadsheet!
Of course the early thrill with global corrections had its downside and laughs too. I remember a book about furniture where someone decided to change the number style from spelled out to figures, forgetting that there was the word “fruitwood” in many places throughout the book.
Wonderful experience. Young workers . . . ETC.
What does “fruitwoood” have to do with it?
Oh! Mind your “p”s and “q”s!!!
Then there was one night in the 60s when the newbie (me) had to remove the staples from a 16-page one-fold brochure, insert the reprinted center spread, and staple them again. All 500 copies. A young woman working alone in a big print shop in an industrial neighborhood at night, looking forward to walking home at midnight through a ghetto, Chinatown and the gay nightclub zone to get to the yuppie apartment block. Oh, yeah.