The physiological aspect probably has to do with the regularized eye movement in fully justified text vs. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. We won’t go into the mechanics of it all here, * but, in essence, a slide rule helps its user to multiply numbers simply by reading off a pair of distances, as on a conventional ruler. Apparently, the author is of an age where he only experienced an "after the fact" transition, where I "lived through" the transition from dedicated type composition equipment to the era of the general purpose computer (PageMaker, Ready, Set, Go! Challenging missions into the Arctic to monitor a Soviet Navy exercise from Mildenhall lasting up to 12 hours, made even more difficult by fog and snow at this British airbase.

As a maintainer, it was great to feel a real part of the mission…some programs do not include you that way. Lastly, one character tries to save another character in danger, but the help comes too late and someone falls to their death off-page. From the pilcrow ¶ to the ampersand, the entire cast of Shady Characters reflects the changes in written communication through the ages, charting how punctuation has adapted to each new technological innovation. If you love history, learning new information about the world around you, love trivia, and were someone who often wondered what that little paragraph sign was in word documents then you will enjoy this book very much.But a visit to the USA had inspired Sinclair to design a new product: the thinnest, lightest pocket calculator the world had ever seen. Herzstark’s tenacity in the face of one of the great atrocities of our time, and the ingenuity of the calculator that resulted, are equally worthy of note. Wheildon reached the conclusion that "well set, fully justified text" provided better reading comprehension than "well set, ragged right" text. I never thought these symbols came from long traditions of stone carving, writing, note-taking, nor that they had anything at all to do with the rise of Christianity, the librarians of Alexandria, and ARPANET. It started life as the “Cal Tech”, a prototype calculator designed by Texas Instruments as a means to sell microchips to the average person on the street.

Our equipment produced beautifully typeset books, using highly skilled technicians who understood typography and the arcane commands inserted into the text to accomplish the desired output.

I only finished Shady Characters an hour ago and if you put gun to my child's head I don't think I could provide a decent description of how the octothorp or ampersand came to be. But since it’s an account of failed punctuation marks, there’s an unavoidable sameness to each story—someone proposes a new punctuation mark, it fails to get off the ground, and it’s relegated to the dustbin of history.

This copy received for free courtesy of Goodreads Firstreads program, which in no way influenced this review. It seems someone in the Hollow will do anything to keep her from solving the murder, and soon it will take all of Vera’s cunning and quickness to crack the case.

The first delightful surprise I found inside is that, in a tribute to medieval manuscripts and early printed books, the book is rubricated—the drop caps, special characters, figure numbers, and dingbats are printed in red.