[Dragaera] Dragaeran programming

Howard Brazee howard at brazee.net
Fri Oct 10 15:03:47 PDT 2008


On Oct 10, 2008, at 3:39 PM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:

> For a shorter and much more readable example, in the Ellery Queen
> whodunit _The Origin of Evil_ a threatening letter is written in
> rather flowery language, and it's only at the _moment juste_ that
> Queen reveals the whole thing was written without the letter T
> ... at a time at which one of the suspects had a typewriter with
> a broken T bar.
>
> Wouldn't work with modern word processors, now, would it?  Unless
> the appropriate key on the keyboard was broken and the writer had
> to work around that.

It's not too hard to cut and paste a "t" into a word processor document.

Typewriters have enough individuality that they can be matched to  
documents without such extremes.



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