[Info-vax] Writer advice requested

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In article <4cdae006$0$2146$c3e8da3$9deca2c3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>
>> left.  It would be nice if people would just rediscover that key
>> on the right side of the QWERTY keyboard that had traditionally
>> caused the typewriter carriage to travel to the right. ;)
>
>
>It confuses people because the arrow on that key seems to indicate a
>movement to the left.
>
>Besides, on a DECwriter, that key did not cause the paper to travel to
>the right, it caused the head to travel to the left. (Ok, it was more
>complex, because if you pause for a second, the head would then move to
>the right so you could see what you just typed, but had no idea or the
>head's position, and when you resumed typing, the head would travel back
>to the left).
>
>  Then again, the current generation have probably never seen a
>typewriter  and when theuy hear "carriage", they probably think about
>that fancy gold plated buggy attached to horses that is used by the
>Queen of england.
>
>
>
>I've personally stopped catering to an 80 column limit. But I keep it
>reasonable.

Do you print on a bed plotter?

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