Composing stick
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In letterpress printing and typesetting, a composing stick is a tray-like tool used to assemble pieces of metal type into words and lines, which are then transferred to a galley before being locked in
A composing stick loaded with metal movable type, held over a lower case with larger boxes for more common minuscule letters: the upper case holds capital letters.
A Miller & Richard composing stick, showing the adjustment mechanism (left side)
Letter case
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Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals and smaller lowercase in the written representation of certain languages. The writing systems that distingui
Composing stick
…A composing stick loaded with metal movable type, held over a lower case with larger boxes for more common minuscule letters: the upper case holds capital letters. A Miller & Richard composing stick, showing the adjustment…
Divided upper and lower type cases with cast metal sorts
Layout for type cases
Handwritten Cyrillic script
Papyrus fragment with old Roman cursive script from the reign of Claudius (41–54 CE)