20220114 Typecasting on the lettera 22
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The document discusses the author's attempt at typecasting using a Lettera 22 typewriter. They folded a piece of paper in half to create a narrow surface to type on. The author plans to scan the typed text, insert the image onto their blog at a readable size for mobile phones, and include the text below or as hidden text for search engines. The author reflects on learning to type on typewriters in the 1980s and how it helped develop their eye for detail and good word processing skills later, unlike the sloppy typing they observe from others using computers today.
20220114 Typecasting on the lettera 22
- 1. TYPECASTING ON THE LETTERA 22 MSA/Lettera221956/2O22O114 So, inspired by Joe van Cleave's Youtube videos, I thought I might have another go at typecasting. I have folded a piece of paper in half and am using that to type on. It looks like the typeface on this Lettera is a little too large (it's a Pica machine). The idea is to type on the narrow piece of paper, scan it, and then place the image on your blog at a size that can then be read by a person on a mobile phone. So let's see how that goes. I will also scan the text and either place the OCR'diversion visible below the image, or I will put it in hidden text (not quite sure how to do that but I am quietly confident tha.t it is possible). That way it will get picked up by search engines and such. It's an interesting idea. One that lets me wax lyrical a little bit about the use of a typewriter in 2022. I learned to type on typewriters as part of their final swansong - in the mid-80s. By the time I left uni the computer age. was in full swing, and I was a part of that. With my Commodore XT computer and all. But one thing that that early training left me with was a bit of an eye for detail. So this typecasting that I see today by other people - with baldly formed letters, ragged left margins (1), and terrible error correction (if they notice their typos at all) gives me a bit of a twitch in my left eye. I do think that learning on a typewriter helped with good word processing skills later - and helps you know why you do things (like line spacing). It's too easy to make mistakes with computers and get away with it. You get lazy. A typewriter won't go well with that kind of poor discipline. Anyway - there's probably a thesis or two in that viewpoint. For now - let's just see if this experiment works. Bye for now from the Typecasting on the Deck series J