Last typewriter factory in the world shuts its doors

[Thomas Milne]

Where do I click 'like'? ;)

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Gron Arthur <gron.arthur-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I lament the death of web 1.0, like those that reflect on the passing
> of the typewriter, with web1 hobbiest could produce informative web
> pages with little effort.  There was ownership of the work produced,
> with people having to rent a bit of server space.  Yes with the cloud
> and web 2.0 you could do more things, interesting things, but at least
> for a moment in the late 90s there was still a youthful spirit to the
> endeavor.  Now advertising has crept into everything, phones and
> devices are locked down.  We've moved from the 'Endless September' of
> people learning the social norms of the net to letting ourselves be
> constrained by companies disabling features to dumb down and profit
> from our learned ignorance and breed apathy.
>
> Perhaps we need a funeral for the typewriter and web 1.0 like the
> "Death of the Hippie" ceremony in 1967.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Peter King <peter.king-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 09:27:27AM -0400, Gron Arthur wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not a fan of pdf books.  With HTML I can copy and paste easily -
>>> that's what I'm interested in.  Form follows function.
>>
>> TeX can generate pdf (there is even a version, pdfTeX, that produces
>> such files directly rather than dvi output)> TeX can also, with minor
>> effort, produce reasonable html.
>>
>> However, I was addressing what tools professionals use these days --
>> which I took to be a question about tools used to produce high-quality
>> output, which still means printed books. TeX can and does drive Varitype
>> printers, and is the final stage in many book-production presses. Because
>> Knuth made some clever design decisions, it produces excellent output
>> even on low-resolution output devices (like 2400dpi laser printers). It
>> was even better on nine-pin dot matrix printers, all because Knuth used
>> sophisticated line-breaking algorithms and page-description measurements
>> (including his own version of kerning tables).
>>
>> For easy copy-and-paste I prefer straight ASCII text (or Unicode).
>>
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