Re: Typewriter keyboard

Jonathan Morton wrote:

[...]

Thinking about this, it's amazing how the manual keyboard, dead though
it is, rules us from the grave. I always use Word with the paragraph
symbol on, which shows all the non-printing characters. It's interesting
how may secretaries in our firm use numerous carriage returns at the end
of a document...

"Why do you do this?"

"We were taught to do it".

"But that was so you could get the paper out of the typewriter".

Err...

LOL. Now I know why so many paragraphs in stuff I get sent end with an extra
space.

The paragraph symbol is also useful for detecting "learning by doing"
word-processor users. I am often asked to type an English translation over
the German original in order to preserve the formatting. Occasionally I get
a "60-page document from hell" in which elaborate alignment and special
effects of unbelievable complexity have been achieved by using the space
bar alone.

--
Les
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