compositor

noun com·pos·i·tor \ kəm-ˈpä-zə-tər \

|Updated on: 26 Jul 2018

Definition of compositor

: one who sets type

Recent Examples of compositor from the Web

Las últimas imágenes con vida del cantante y compositor @jorgevalenzuelaoficial fueron en un cementerio cantándole a su suegro, un par de horas después perdería la vida en un accidente automovilístico.

— justino aguila, Billboard, "Regional Mexican Singer Jorge Valenzuela Dies in Car Crash at 22 Years Old," 9 July 2018
In my business, newspaper publishing, work that had been done by dozens of skilled and specialized workers (compositors, paste-up artists, camera operators, platemakers) could suddenly be done by one person sitting at a computer.

— kevin d. williamson, National Review, "The Great Leap Forward," 19 Jan. 2018
But Kristian Høgsberg, the original author of Wayland, pointed out on Google+ that these features were already implemented in Wayland’s compositor Weston.

— klint finley, WIRED, "Ubuntu Mir: Is This the Future of Linux Everywhere?," 8 Mar. 2013

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