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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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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Was important now since I found the actual output in Haven’s manual!
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Is it real output or a typewriter-style font, though?
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Interesting point. I didn’t expect typewriter-like fonts to exist at that point, but there was really no alternative, right?
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1902 example of typewriter type faces:https://books.google.com/books?id=K5ngAAAAMAAJ&dq=linotype%20type%20catalog&pg=PA116-IA1#v=onepage&q&f=false …
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Yeah, but type-writers were huge, hence type-writing manuals were huge. I would expect these fonts to appear rather quickly to satisfy publishers. And in fact, printers being the crafty people they were could probably convert an actual typewriter into a workable font.
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1893-94 catalog sample:https://books.google.com/books?id=WQdQAAAAYAAJ&dq=specimen%20book%20typewriter&pg=PA174#v=onepage&q&f=false …
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And 1888: https://books.google.com/books?id=0YweAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA137#v=onepage&q&f=false … (Also an unrelated photo engraving a few pages earlier)
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