I guess in the 19th century texts used Mr. a *lot* more
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I’m curious if that key had extra spacing, or did you have to space twice afterwards, negating any savings?
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I could almost see the character being worthwhile if they kerned the period under the overhang of the r
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But they didn’t:https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/1115837859620110338 …
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And also, heavy Shift! This is the weirdest thing ever. No wonder Sholes got pissed at Remington and sold all his stock. This is the equivalent of Zuckerberg ruining Instagram.
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"heavy Shift"?
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Instead of pressing “r” and then “.” you had to: · switch it to uppercase (which was physically heavy, no basket shifting yet) · press “5” · switch it back to lowercase with a key on the opposite side of the keyboard · maybe do an extra space by hand?
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you were already in uppercase for the M/D though, so it's not that bad
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Oh, that’s actually a good point. I guess those were also more heavily capitalized then.
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Mr and Dr would definitely always have been capitalized — maybe that's the secret. You already are in a shift mode so having an r + . is actually labor saving
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Yeah, so that’d move up a date of a first keyboard shortcut-y thing from the previous Bennington/Xcel, itself an unresolved mystery:https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/905819516801695745?s=21 …
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The spacing thing is a very weird issue though. Are you sure that's a real sample. I very much would have guessed it would be a superior r. A lot of mechanics to make it double space for that one key.
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Replying to @WideSpacer @mwichary and
Any chance you can track down the buyer of that typewriter you found and see what's actually on the tybebar hammer?
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