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In the UK, we also used to type '£' with an 'L' and backspacing and overtyping an '='. Weirdly, I learned to type on a second hand Selectric typewriter that my
by ralferoo 1y ago
In the UK, we also used to type '£' with an 'L' and backspacing and overtyping an '='.
Weirdly, I learned to type on a second hand Selectric typewriter that my parents bought cheaply at some auction, and while it had a '1' key, the only ball we had used that key for punctuation instead, so we still needed to type 'l' instead.
- JdeBP 1y agoAnd since I've mentioned GNU groff elsethread, here's where it today in its "ascii" mode uses a minus sign instead of the equals sign to do the very same thing as you did on your typewriter, for "Po", the macro for producing a pound symbol. * https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/tree/tmac/tty-char.tmac?id=32393c7e30ed9b3787f458adf6b2e861b97b9088#n155 https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/tree/tmac/t...