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24Compositorial Analysis
After running several types of test on An Humorous Dayʼs Mirth, Yamada identifies no more than two, and probably only one, compositor at work on the play.[163] Holaday agrees, and cannot prove a second compositor with orthographic tests.[164] However he highlights D1v and D2, where examples of misreadings and eyeskips hint at the involvement of a second compositor, who also seems to have trouble with the Latin at this one place in the text. Yamada records spelling and punctuation favoured by the compositor, as well as interesting examples of the above.[165]
25Alan E. Craven describes the unusual preferences of a compositor in Simmesʼs shop, known as Compositor A.[166] The tendency of Compositor A not to place a full stop after unabbreviated speech prefixes, or use contrasting type for proper names, suggests that he was not the compositor who set An Humorous Dayʼs Mirth.