On 17 Aug 2002, it is alleged that Christopher Jahn sauntered in to netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news and loudly proclaimed:
> And it came to pass that Brian Heinrich wrote: > >> On 16 Aug 2002, it is alleged that Jay Garcia sauntered in >> to netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news and loudly proclaimed: >>> I consider Adobe to be an authority on the subject of >>> fonts, etc. >>> >>> Here, read this, especially the "Why space-space is a >>> no-no". >>> >>> http://www.adobe.com/print/tips/felici20001030/main.html >> >> Interestingly, I just refuted that article by pulling a >> book off a shelf, published in the U. K. in 1863, in which >> 'double-spacing' follows a full stop. (I didn't check >> closely enough to see what the convention was in re. a >> colon; that seems to have been somewhat variable.) The >> book -- an eight- volume history of England originally >> published in serial form and then bound in four fairly >> hefty tomes -- was, I believe, published prior to the >> invention of the typewriter. >> > > Nope. The first typewriter was patented in 1714 in England by > Henry Mill - although no known models of it exist. The first > american typewriter was patented in 1829, but was cumbersome and > unreliable, and was more novelty than office tool. > > You're thinking of the first practical typewriter, the Remington > Model 1, patented in 1867. > > The inventer, Christopher Latham Sholes, patented the QWERTY > keyboard the following year. > > But the Remington Model 2, introduced in 1873, was the first > truly viabl typewriter. Ah. Thanks for the clarification. I was thinking kind of post-Civil-War- ish. And, yes, I was thinking in terms of practicality or viability. >> Mr Felici's argument is interesting and certainly reflects >> current practice. It's just that he, um, well, happens to >> be /wrong/. > > Actually, if you read his article more carefully, you'll see > that he is not wrong so much as brief. Every word he wrote is > true and accurate, it just doesn't go farther back than a > hundred years. Fair 'nuff, I guess. However, since he bases his argument on typewriters /v/ computer typography (apparently), and since the convention antedates the common use of the typewriter and fixed-pitch fonts, I would still say that, of necessity, he is wrong. But it's not that big a deal. . . . /b. -- Mozilla end-user questions should be directed to: snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.mozilla.user.general snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.mozilla.user.win32 snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.mozilla.user.mac snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.mozilla.user.unix Note that you need to have SSL enabled and the port set to 563.
