Without women, the telephone system crashed without switchboard operators, and newspapers couldn't publish without typesetters.

没有妇女，就没有了接线员，电话系统瘫痪；报纸也因为没有排而无法出版。

The Paige machine promised to take print into the new world.

这款佩吉排机承诺将把印刷带入新世界。

Perhaps — perhaps the hurried printer had repeated the name by error.

或许排太匆忙，误将名排重了。

Um...And...you say why...is that important, well, you know, proportionally spaced fonts come from typesetting and beautiful books.

为什么这很重要，你要知道，比体的原型出自于排和精美书籍。

During that period, typesetters were also paid by each line, so they often spelled words longer on purpose.

在此期，排员的资按行收费，所以他们经常故意延长单词的拼写时。

The stories he wrote for Orion's paper, his first publications, taught him that he much preferred writing to typesetting.

他为奥利翁的报纸写故事，这也是他的处女作，使他明白与排作相比，自己更喜欢写作。

Laggards risk going the way of typesetters.

落后者有沦为排运的风险。

He had worked in the Low Countries and his first typesetters came with him from the continent.

他曾在低地国家作，他的第一批排是跟他从欧洲大陆来的。

James taught him to set type.

詹姆斯教他排。

Dutch type setters changed some spellings to match their Flemish conventions, like adding an H to ghost and ghastly.

荷兰排者更改了一些拼写以符合他们的佛兰芒语惯，如在 ghost 和 ghastly 中添加 H。

You see, Caxton needed experienced  typesetters to work his presses and all his best contacts were back in Bruges.

你看，卡克斯顿需要有经验的排来操作他的印刷机，而他所有最得力的助手都在布鲁日。

THE COMPOSER LAYS THE TYPE OUT ON A COMPOSING STICK, THEN PLACES IT IN A FRAME CALLED A GALLEY.

作曲家将体排在排棒上， 然后将其放在一个称为厨房的框架中。

Twain poured around $300,000 of his own money trying to keep the Paige typesetter afloat, which is over $9 million by today's standards.

为了维持佩奇排机的运营，吐温自己投入了大约30万美元，按现在的参考标准，可以说已经超过了900万美元。

Typesetters spent their days on a stool in front of a cabinet full of type drawers called cases.

排一整天都坐在柜子前的凳子上，这个柜子里装满了被称为盘的抽屉。

But it required such precise calibration and constant maintenance that it became obsolete almost as soon as it was released, and left behind by smarter, quicker machines.

但这款排机需要精确的校准和不断的维护，以至于它几乎刚一问世就被淘汰了，被更智能、更快捷的机器取而代之。

And in one example from the pay scale published by a typographical union in 1815, you can see that fine print costs more.

而在1815年一家排会公布的薪酬标准中，你可以看到小的费用更高。

Perversely, publishers often made a lot of money off fine print, making it worth paying typesetters much more per line of type.

讽刺的是，出版商常常通过" 小/细则" 赚取大量利润，这使得每行排版支付给排/排版员的报酬相当可观。

See But typesetters are believed  to have thought that popping the H after the W was a better fit for  a language rich with THs, CHs, and SHs.

但据信，排认为在W后加上H更适合这种充满TH、CH和SH的语言。

These individual pieces of type were assembled into words and pages by typesetters, who were also known as compositors, because they composed type into something bigger.

这些单独的铅由排（也称为排版员）组合成单词和页面，因为他们将铅编排成更大的整体。

Finally, and importantly for our discussion of fine print, each character had its own cubbyhole in the drawer according to a standard, called the lay of the case, that typesetters memorized as apprentices.

最后，对于我们讨论的" 小/细则" 而言，每个符在抽屉中都有其专属的格子，依据一种被称为" 排版规则" 的标准排列，排在学徒期便需熟记此规则。