Typesetting is the process of composing text into readable lines and pages for reproduction in print or digital form. It involves selecting typefaces, setting size and spacing, controlling line breaks, and arranging headings, notes, and page elements. Poetry typesetting demands close fidelity to the poet's intended lineation, indentation, and silence. Unlike ordinary prose, verse often depends on exact spatial relationships, so a typesetter must understand that a changed break, gap, or alignment can become an unintended revision of the poem.

Typesetting involves selecting typefaces and arranging letters, words, lines, spacing, and pages. In poetry, choices such as indentation, line breaks, and white space are especially meaningful.