Feels very bizarre to have that as a key for that purpose, because it doesn’t save enough effort. But that never stopped typewriter companies looking for an edge.
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To confuse matters even more, here is a source that shows both £ and "r." as available characters, which probably disproves my £ theory. https://books.google.com/books?id=m4QNAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA279&dq=remington+%22lower+case%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi2va-sg8HhAhVjFTQIHcZHBo44ChDoAQgyMAI#v=onepage&q=remington%20%22lower%20case%22&f=false …pic.twitter.com/OpcUVC472N
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Oooh.
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Definitely need to see if you can find some typewritten correspondence from the period—maybe etched reproductions in a book of typewritten letters?—to see if the superscript r is there?
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Also found a claim that the tricolon (shown here as "|") is "for parentheses, braces, etc." https://books.google.com/books?id=GfI5AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA9178&dq=%22q+w+e+r+t+y+u+i+o+p%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjdx_K3jMHhAhWVMX0KHT2CCjMQ6AEIMDAB#v=onepage&q=%22q%20w%20e%20r%20t%20y%20u%20i%20o%20p%22&f=false …pic.twitter.com/hiWU1GuTw9
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Marcin’s white whale!
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Speaking of which! I just somehow found an early manual for a Sholes & Glidden typewriter, which includes this! Which is funny, because why would you have an extra key for something you can achieve with another key *you’re yourself mentioning*? So might be post-rationalization.pic.twitter.com/K8IC4NDe5l
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I will of course take full credit for being the first to suggest parenthesis as a possibility.https://twitter.com/WideSpacer/status/873759895874621440 …
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Replying to @mwichary @WideSpacer and
One of the most interesting things in researching the way in which things were formatting and punctuation is how difficult it is to find history, despite the amount of material digitized!
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People didn't document things that were obvious. Especially when book printing was expensive. I'm confident my take on the history of sentence spacing is accurate but there's very little that makes it explicit - and also some that contradicts it.
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