On Monday 16 June 2008 11:44:59 pm Tim wrote: > Tim: (about cut and paste) > > >> I always thought that term came from designing newspaper page > >> layouts. > > Craig White: > > probably more accurate to say offset printing which allowed you to > > create plates from a camera so you could do paste-ups on cardboard. > > Fair enough. I can remember going for a tour through our newspaper > building when they still worked that way. We were led through the whole > production process, in order. > > Somewhere I still have my name on a metal block - one of the linotypers > bashed out all our names for us, and I kept mine. I wish I could find > it, I could use it for neatly naming my plastic possessions with a bit > of applied heat. ;-) > > -- > [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r > 2.6.25.6-55.fc9.i686 Tim: If and when you try that little experiment, be very careful when you heat up the "metal" block -- the "metal" is a lead alloy and has a rather low melting point. -- cmg -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
