compositor

noun

Etymology: From French compositeur, from Latin compositor.

1. A person who sets type; a typesetter.

   “Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language […] his clerks […] understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there.”

   “All Spaniards, we discovered, knew two English expressions. One was 'O.K., baby', the other was a word used by the Barcelona whores in their dealings with English sailors, and I am afraid the compositors would not print it.”

2. One who, or that which, composes or sets in order.

   “I work as an image compositor.”

3. A system that puts images together in a buffer (such as individual windows on a desktop) to generate a final display image.