On Sat, July 21, 2012 3:07 pm, John Howell wrote: > The typewriter keyboard (at least the American > ones on which I learned to type in about 1950) > lacked a LOT of characters that were common in > typesetting, including italics, boldface, and > almost all diacritical marks. The number "1" was > typed as a lower-case "L," and the "zero" was an > upper-case "O." Italics were indicated by > underscoring. And trying to imitate boldface was > a real kludge.
I learned at a place called Drake School of Business in 1963. Our keyboards were blank. There were such great tricks for some things -- full-justified or right-justified typing was the real challenge, because one business style used it for return addresses. As for boldface, there was one typewriter (I forget the brand) which had a horizontal offset spacer on the platen to allow the same characters to be typed over the others with just a little shift, creating a bolder character. If you got a classy typewriter, it had "1" key. :) And later, I used an IBM Selectric Composer in my graphics job at the NJ State Museum. You typed everything twice -- once so the machine could calculate the space needed, and a second time after using a special tab key to move across the (extra-wide) page. Never mind. I still have a manual typewriter, but I'll never go back to those days unless we get an apocalypse. Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
