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On a typewriter the bell rings before you return the carriage. (By pushing it – if it's manual, there's no such thing as ‘hitting enter’.) It happens a few char
by n3k5 6y ago
On a typewriter the bell rings before you return the carriage. (By pushing it – if it's manual, there's no such thing as ‘hitting enter’.) It happens a few characters before the end of the line, as a warning that you should go to the next line after the current word, or if it's a long word, think about hyphenation.
Oh, and the typewriters used to perform that song made famous by Jerry Lewis are hacked so the bell can be triggered ad lib — but the sheet music still says to do it before pushing the lever :)
- jedberg 6y agoI know I was just trying to get close to the typewriter experience. :)
- n3k5 6y agoI assumed as much, just couldn't stop myself from writing a clarification anyway in case some younger readers would get confused. Initially I found the idea to make it more authentic more fun, but now that you've mentioned ease of implementation — yeah, it wouldn't be that much fun that I could be arsed to, say, patch a terminal emulator. A text editor plug-in would be easier, though. Get a subtle ding when a line of code is about to get too long, instead of dreading the approaching cliff of a strict ruler :) Btw., this is quite neat, too: https://youtu.be/qb43-hn_-_c https://youtu.be/qb43-hn_-_c (The download link for the sound pack in the video description still works!)
- fortran77 6y agoThere's no free score of Anderson's "Typewriter" to be found--it's still under copyright--but there's a YouTube with a condensed score: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIdqJExuFMI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIdqJExuFMI When we preformed this in college orchestra, a percussionist made the "ding" separately from the typewriter and I think it was noted in the score for triangle IIRC.