6 Nov
2020
6 Nov
'20
9:53 p.m.
Moving to COFF.
below.
On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 10:40 AM Will Senn <will.senn(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Clem,
It figures. I should have known there was a reason for the shorter lines
other than display. Conventions are sticky and there appears to be a
generation gap. I use single spaces between sentences, but my ancestors
used 2... who knows why? :).
You never use a real typewriter. Double-space allows you to edit
(physically) the document if need be. This was how I did everything
before I had easy computer access.
I went to college with an electric typewriter and all my papers were done
on it in the fall of my freshman year (until I got access to UNIX). I did
have an CS account for the PDP-10 and they had the XGP, but using it for
something like your papers was somewhat frowned upon. However, the UNIX
boxes we often bought 'daisy wheel' typewriters that had RS-232C
interfaces. Using nroff, I could then do my papers and run it off in the
admin's desk at night.
Clem