>From: Patrick O'Callaghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: 2008/06/16 Mon AM 11:29:41 CDT >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: tr problem
>On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 23:09 +0930, Tim wrote: >> Anne Wilson: >> >> There's a lot of skill. I remember all too well getting to the end of a >> >> long >> >> document, only to find a typo. The only resort was to rip it out and >> >> start >> >> again. >> >> Patrick O'Callaghan: >> > Actually, this is where the expression "cut-and-paste" originates :-) >> >> I always thought that term came from designing newspaper page layouts. > >According to Wikipedia (source of all knowledge and wisdom): > > The term "cut and paste" derives from the traditional practice > in manuscript-editing whereby people would literally cut > paragraphs from a page with scissors and physically paste them > onto another page. This practice remained standard as late as > the 1960s. Stationery stores formerly sold "editing scissors" > with blades long enough to cut an 8-1/2"-wide page. The advent > of photocopiers made the practice easier and more flexible. > >More to the point, I remember actually doing this ... > >See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut-and-paste > >poc > >-- >fedora-list mailing list >[email protected] >To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list This brings to mind another lost technology and talent, the use of the "glue machine" that applied a heated wax type "glue" to the back of a piece of paper allowing you to do a "paste up" of your manuscript. I was in on any number of technical papers created using this technique in the 60's and 70's. ~~R -- fedora-list mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
