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Subject:Mixed-up type From:Fred M Jacobson <fred -at- BOOLE -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 5 Nov 1993 14:38:04 PST
> ...
> Our shop (we learned to hand set type in a mandatory class called
> "industrial arts") teacher in high school had a neat remedy for
> cut-ups: they got to sort all that mixed-up type after class...
> Jack Shaw
> ...
I remember from my Print Shop class in high school that "mixed-up
type" is called "pied." My dictionary defines "pi" or "pie" as a
bunch of scrambled type. Origin unknown. And, yes, sorting type
is a pain. Just learning to distinguish "b," "d," and "p" took
a couple of weeks!
-Fred
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