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Artyping (1939)
- galago 8y agoThe man's face on page 52 looks like a reaction image you would see on social media today.
- tamentis 8y agoYou don't say.
- sandhillcrane 8y agoNah, it's a 1939 espionage cipher for transmitting Chinese characters. 147MB for a 97 page scanned .pdf is a bit extreme so piping it through Acrobat, selecting Optimization and OCR shrinks it to 20MB. Checking OCR results using SPELLING script on page 20 copied to an LibreOffice text page yields: 盟伊盤:L皿LIN (there are four kanji in the above line if you don't have the font) The first three translate to : leader Italy tray then a smiley with its tongue hanging out then a character meaning dish, or a helping then LIN (wherever that is). :-)
- gatherhunterer 8y agoNot only is this interesting but it is also demonstrative of how to write an instructional manual. He provides plenty of examples and advice on how to improve one's technique. The "soldiers" example on page 21 is a good example of how to explain and demonstrate a technique.
- romwell 8y agoASCII art before ASCII was a thing!
- dwringer 8y agoI thought it looked kind of cool, so I derived a lettering style from the one shown on page 17 and made a kludgy bit of Common Lisp to print strings in it[1]. I tested it a little bit, but, caveat emptor. As written it only supports spaces and 26 lower case (input) letters from a-z. [1] https://github.com/dwringer/line-lettering https://github.com/dwringer/line-lettering