Re: ASCII convention

axel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> Peter T. Daniels <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Lee Sau Dan wrote:
>
> >> >>>>> "Peter" == Peter T Daniels <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> >> Peter> Peter Daniels is not interested in coding. Peter Daniels is
> >> Peter> talking about the fonts on desktop computers -- the fonts
> >> Peter> that ordinary scholars, not up-to-the-minute tech gurus
> >> Peter> like yourself, use in preparing their scholarly
> >> Peter> manuscripts. If any portion of the "coding" process is
> >> Peter> visible to the end user, then the coding process is a
> >> Peter> failure. Just as no one using a typewriter needed to know
> >> Peter> anything about its innards other than changing the ribbon
> >> Peter> (though presumably they had their secretary do that).
>
> >> Why do you need to care about typing if you've got a decent secretary?
> >> And what if your secretary needs to change the ribbon? Does he have a
> >> secretary of his own to do it for him?
>
> > There were almost no male secretaries in the days of typewriter ribbons.
>
> You are confusing the secretary from the typing pool with the
> private secretary who almost certainly did not type.

How you figure? "Private secretary" to me means a delightfully salacious
Ann Sothern sitcom of the 1950s. (Her boss was Don Porter, whom I saw
years later in Neil Simon's *Plaza Suite* on Broadway with Peggy Cass.

I don't see how "private secretaries" relate to anything either LSD or I
said.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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