"Typesetting" is the rendering of letterforms on visible media. Examples are the words (not the graphics) on the printed pages of a book, or the words on the display of your computer screen. Software for typesetting covers a broad range: software appropriate for typesetting a phone book will be of little help in preparing a magazine. Also, it is frequently difficult to separate the "software" from the "system," so this category will include proprietary typesetting systems. One can't set type without fonts, so we will address fonts here. We will also provide links to related technologies and information such as digital type design and research on human perception of type.
Batch typographic systems are usually for specialized purposes: we use them when we have particular needs that exceed the capabilities of the interactive systems (which are usually easier to use and cheaper to acquire). Examples are systems that must process very high volumes of type, or provide a high degree of control of the output, or allow conditional decisions in the output based on the content of the data.


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