I've been watching this thread with interest as a tradesman printer from, well let us say many years ago. The trade has just about vanished, "thanks" to computers. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em, I sometimes say.

The word "compositing" was never, ever used in the trade (at least here in NZ). You "made up" or "composed" pages, you didn't "composite" them. The chief sub-editor of the newspaper I worked for would be spinning in his grave if he had ever heard such an abomination.

The computer "industry" has a lot to answer for, not least the new, Germanic approach to linguistic usage and word formation. And my wife has just come into the room, so I guess we're now intervisible ...


The idiot also known as Capfka ...