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I did not understand this sentence: > The arrangement of the letters in the California job case became so common that a skilled typesetter could "read" the tex
by rendall 3y ago
I did not understand this sentence:
> The arrangement of the letters in the California job case became so common that a skilled typesetter could "read" the text set by another typesetter, just by watching the typesetter remove type from the case, seeing from which compartments the letters were taken.
Does anyone else understand this? Could you explain, please?
- giraffe_lady 3y agoYou could watch someone work and know what words they were putting down by where they were reaching, even if you were too far away to make out the letters themselves.
- mohaba 3y agoIf you pick the letters strictly in order, it spells out the words. If you pick the letters by word, you can guess what word as there are only so many words. It'd be like watching a touch typist on a unlabeled keyboard for another example.
- sbuttgereit 3y agoThe letters are in specific spots inside the case. Because the case layout is a standard, someone very skilled with the standard could read the word being typeset because they could see which spots were being pulled from for different words... since the spot in the case is the letter... you can know the letters of the word. This might assume that the letters were being pulled in order (or reasonably ordered).
- soupfordummies 3y agoit's like if you watched someone typing on a qwerty keyboard with no letters printed on it but you could still make out the words because you know where the keys are.