On 5/5/2017 9:49 PM, dick balaska wrote:
> Am 2017-05-05 10:45, also sprach Stephen:
>
>> No arguing about the precision and shininess of German engineering. But
>> Umlauts originally were the product of Linotype hot metal splatter.
>> Rather than reset the type with new slugs. They became a feature.
>
> Fake news!
>
> Pope Pius II praised Gutenberg's use of umlauts 500 years before
> Linotype was invented.
>
>
You bit before Clipka. :D

+1 Me :)

But you probably don't know. I've worked on Linotype machines, photo 
typesetters.

It was an ambush. :)

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Regards
     Stephen

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