chapter 6 Typesetting versus Typewriting
Typewriters are an endangered species, and an entire generation is growing
up that has never (or has rarely) used one. Nevertheless, conventions born of
the typewriter persist, even though virtually every computer user now uses
text-processing programs that should properly follow the rules of typesetting,
not typing. The transition is complicated, not only because the force of habit is
powerful, but also because the computer keyboard is modeled on a typewriter
keyboard, offering a range of inappropriate characters and suggesting in general
that typing is what it always has been. It’s not.
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