How Computers Make Books

5 Typing it in

This chapter covers

• The development of the keyboard and typewriter
• Modern input methods for the computer
• Typing languages such as Chinese

It is easy to take for granted the ability to enter, modify, and correct large amounts of text accurately and quickly since most of us have some proficiency in it these days. But remember that, in the past, huge numbers of young people would go to secretarial school before they could work as typists or data entry clerks. The present generation may use computer or tablet keyboards from childhood, but those of us who remember having to learn to type as teenagers recall how hard it seemed at the time. In this chapter, we will look at different keyboard configurations, including those that ...