Last typewriter factory in the world shuts its doors

[phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org]

I've written two books using (La)Tex, and I'm just in the process of
reading a third one that was evidently typeset with some variant of TeX.
It's an amazing tool for scientific/technical writing.

Peter

> By the way, what tools do professionals use nowdays?  TeX is the only
> tool I know, but I doubt if people use that.
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> William
>
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 07:48:04PM -0400, Russell reiter wrote:
>> More efficiently. You can produce a lot more type if your not fixing
>> some cock up you could have avoided.
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Scott Allen <mlxxxp-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> > On 27 April 2011 19:25, Russell reiter <rreiter91-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> >> [...] the qwerty keyboard was designed to slow the
>> >> operator down so as not to jam up the keys.
>> >
>> > This often quoted myth is not true. It was designed to reduce jamming
>> > so the operator could type FASTER.
>> > <http://home.earthlink.net/~dcrehr/whyqwert.html>
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