Begin even.
To expedite composition where the copy is in long paragraphs, the compositor starts at random, that is, in the middle of a sentence, and the preceding compositor “makes even” to his “take” of copy.
To expedite composition where the copy is in long paragraphs, the compositor starts at random, that is, in the middle of a sentence, and the preceding compositor “makes even” to his “take” of copy.
Entry taken from Printers' Vocabulary, by Charles Thomas Jacobi, 1888.