Dear Hivemind: How were tables, formulae, charts, and figures (line, not shaded art) laid out / ttypeset in physical presses?
Say, 1850 - 1950, roughly?
@dredmorbius Oh, man, painfully. Like everything else, you had to carefully lay out by hand the movable type on the composing stick.
#Gauss 
actually says in #DisquisitionesArithmeticae, roughly paraphrased, "as a courtesy to my printer, I will introduce a new variable" because he was trying to avoid double exponents like \( p^{a^r} \).
@dredmorbius
It was also common for much of the 20th century when #typewriters were most fashionable to use the typewriter for most of the prose and leave space to write #formulae by hand later. Laurent Schwartz's classic Theory of Distributions from the 1950s (or generalised functions, as the Soviets call them) is written in this way.
Even the first editions of Spivak's A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry from the 1970s is typewriter + handwritten formulae.
