On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 09:54:58PM -0500, Gregory Pittman wrote: > On 11/13/2014 04:34 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > >On 11/13/2014 12:56 PM, john Culleton wrote: > >>When the typewriter > >>came along the instructions were to put two space > >>characters after a full stop to emulate this > >>practice. > > > >You do know, don't you, that the typewriter was invented in the 1860's, > >and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) was probably the first book > >written using a typewriter? All of this long predates everything in your > >history. > > > You have to consider that with John, everything is another opportunity to > talk about TeX, which as we know, he is quite fond of.
So it *wasn't* you who wrote the typewriter practice course? :) -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X
