tr problem

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Mon Jun 16 13:43:49 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 23:09 +0930, Tim wrote:
> Anne Wilson:
> >> There's a lot of skill.  I remember all too well getting to the end of a long 
> >> document, only to find a typo.  The only resort was to rip it out and start 
> >> again.
> 
> Patrick O'Callaghan:
> > Actually, this is where the expression "cut-and-paste" originates :-)
> 
> I always thought that term came from designing newspaper page layouts.
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probably more accurate to say offset printing which allowed you to
create plates from a camera so you could do paste-ups on cardboard.

Craig




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