In fact that’s exactly what they did.
Now you know why Ottmar Mergenthaler is called “the Second Gutenberg” for inventing the Linotype typesetting machine.
You have to be kidding, how could they set type like that for a daily newspaper day after day?? I assume they must have had a ton of typesetters working for them? And even then, to be able to spell out the words using backwards letters must have been maddening. Unreal. I looked up the Linotype, incredible engineering.