Re: ASCII convention

>>>>> "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?

Peter> There were almost no male secretaries in the days of
Peter> typewriter ribbons.

I thought "he" was a gender-neutral pronoun.


Peter> And there are almost no secretaries at all today; there are
Peter> "assistants" and "administrative assistants" and such --
Peter> perhaps because "secretary" had become perceived as a
Peter> menial title, unsuited to male workers.

Then, why are you talking about it?

Peter> And scholars don't often have secretaries of any kind.

Really? Who does all the documentary work for you?



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