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May Sobczak
People are baffled at the logic of buying typewriters, turntables, film cameras, and other non-digital things. It offends their very sense of logical reasoning, and the narrative of linear human progress through technology. But progress is not linear. Something changes, and something is lost in the process: pace, aesthetics, touch, smell, limits.
In some ways writing on a typewriter is hard. My fingers hurt now, and I\u2019m not even done a page. I have made a ton of errors, and the formatting is the work of a deranged maniac (save your Unabomber jokes).
But these words have flowed without pause, and with more fun than anything I\u2019ve written in years, because I can\u2019t go back. The typewriter is the best new writing tool I\u2019ve used since that first school essay on a computer. Today, when the new is ubiquitous and easy and free, we all need a challenge. Something to slow us down, a cognitive roadblock to force us in a new direction. So here we are, writing a blog on a typewriter.
Last weekend I hosted a typewriter get-together at my place in Arlington for DC-area typewriter enthusiasts. I have missed in-person social situations where I could talk typewriters with typewriter people, and I wanted to connect with local collectors.
I am friendly with a local gal who loves typewriters and writing. J. has a really nice collection of typers, and I have worked on a couple of them. She had had a beat-up Olivetti Lettera 22 I fixed up a couple years ago. It eventually became a favorite typewriter for her. She gave it to a friend and now misses it very much.
A local lady heard through the grapevine that I liked to tinker with old typewriters. K. had purchased a Royal KMM at a yard sale and was hoping to get it typing. I was glad to take on the project since it would be a distraction from my Twitter horror scrolling and my hand-wringing over the broken state of the world. She brought it over a couple weekends ago, and here it is on my porch on arrival:
There was a topic about this, but it was auto-closed. I'm new to the app and getting used to it, but there's one feature I still miss from Typora. That is the ability to fix the line that I'm writing in the center of the app window, it is called "typewriter mode". I suppose it's not so cumbersome to implement and it is quite enjoyable. Hope you find my request interesting. Greetings!
After a little experimentation, I decided that if I wanted to draw linear features, there were three characters that were best to use: ! / _. Together, I could create rudimentary lines that roughly connected together in a pseudo-vector style, even if the typewriter grid itself is basically a raster.
For this one, I wanted to try and see if I could squeeze some sort of terrain representation out of the typewriter. As I mentioned, early digital graphics used printed characters to create images. And shading could be simulated by using characters of different darkness. The ASCII Art page on Wikipedia has some examples of this.
I did try to compensate for the fact that the image, which had square pixels, would get stretched vertically once it made it to the typewriter. I set my lighting angle to be about 15 off from the typical upper-left light source that is used in shaded relief. However, I think I shifted it 15 in the wrong direction. But the end result seemed to come out well enough.
I have some C source code and would like to show the circumflex or caret (^) in the way it is typically shown in source code -- as a full-size character. The source code will be appearing in typewriter font, and I'd like for the character to have the same (i.e. fixed) width as all the other characters.
The typewriter package uses the OpenType Computer Modern Unicode Typewriter font, together with a LuaTeX virtual font setup that introduces random variability in grey level and angle of each character. It was originally an answer to a question on stackexchange.
The typewriter is one of the great inventions of 19th Century communications technology. Between the 1860s and 1920s engineers, inventors and even carpenters invested all their creativity in the development of the ultimate writing machine. This virtual museum, that is based on private collections of antique typewriters from around the world, is a tribute to their ingenuity.
Postdoctoral fellow Junhong Choi needed one more phrase for the experiments. Shendure wanted the third quote to encapsulate the excitement of working on this system, which they later named the DNA typewriter, while the COVID-19 pandemic raged around them.
While the DNA typewriter proved it could tuck these phrases like secret messages into cells, its most powerful potential lies elsewhere. Shendure and his colleagues envision scientists using this technology to document the inner workings of cells as they unfold far from view.
The researchers have so far adapted the system to accommodate as many as 4,096 barcodes, which are short pieces of DNA. Like the original machine tapping out letters, the DNA typewriter lays down only one barcode at a time, from left to right.
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