From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: clemc at ccc.com (Clem Cole) Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2020 10:53:59 -0500 Subject: [COFF] [TUHS] The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature In-Reply-To: <175409f6-af94-601e-3db3-a5af5d7f64d0@gmail.com> References: <20201106014109.GP26296@mcvoy.com> <175409f6-af94-601e-3db3-a5af5d7f64d0@gmail.com> Message-ID: Moving to COFF. below. On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 10:40 AM Will Senn 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: