The author’s rules (which differ somewhat from those of Brill and Landau)
More letterpress! So far, my two strongest impressions of printing on a press are related:
1. In the best way, this is the most comically inefficient way to produce words imaginable. It took me two nights (six hours) to reproduce the first fifty-nine words of my September 14th entry in Century Schoolbook 18 with some boldface accidentally mixed in:
2. With this in mind, it is absolutely mind-blowing that this was once the way entire newspapers were printed every single day. How is that possible?