Comments on: First Typoblogging Experiment

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:41:19 +0000

I know this post is pretty old, but are you still doing typed posts? There are a whole mess of people who are into typecasting, see the blogroll on my site. We’re always looking for other typecasters!

By: Bruce Byfield

Bruce Byfield — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:56:03 +0000

You’re dating yourself, John :-). I think only those who have never used typewriters for serious work can want to play around with them.

I’m old enough to remember the transition from typewriters to word processors. I remember typewriters as awkward and unforgiving. I always seemed to make a mistake on the last line of a sheet of paper, and too much whiteout would stick the page to the roller. The first time I used a computer keyboard, it took me all of five minutes to decide I was never going back.

But now that you need a workstation to match your new printer, may I suggest:

http://www.datamancer.net/projects/engine/engine.htm

By: J. Pablo Fernández

J. Pablo Fernández — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:55:14 +0000

You make me miss the typewriter I had at home with which I played a lot when I was a child.

By: Paul R. Potts

Paul R. Potts — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:41:36 +0000

Wonderfully retro! I love it!

I grew up with computers, but also grew up with typewriters. There _is_ something different about the writing process.

By: John Goerzen

John Goerzen — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:03:54 +0000

That would certainly work. Pretty soon we’ll have people photographing stone tablets…

By: Jordi

Jordi — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:00:57 +0000

Hehe, this is quite fun! :)

Lacking a typewriter, I wonder about handwriting my next post.

By: Brent Yorgey

Brent Yorgey — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:52:22 +0000

heh, this is neat. =)

By: John Goerzen

John Goerzen — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:02:47 +0000

I wonder how well this is supported by web browsers? Especially text-mode ones like lynx, links, w3m, etc.

Also the downside of that is that Serendipity will not be able to index the text for searching. Though I wonder if Google would be able to.

By: John Goerzen

John Goerzen — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:51:53 +0000

I tried gocr and tesseract-ocr. Neither could make much more out of this than gibberish. Ocropus isn’t in Debian, so I didn’t have the time to try it. I hope that Clara’s trainable engine might be able to help me out though.

By: brent saner

brent saner — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:50:47 +0000

http://groundstate.ca/ocr

might want to try ocropus ;)

By: Rahul

Rahul — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:10:48 +0000

Well done putting in the effort to add the alt text, Mr. Goerzen! I came in here to point out the broken quotes as well. But as for the longdesc attribute, it appears that nobody uses it (http://blog.whatwg.org/the-longdesc-lottery).

By: Jim Apple

Jim Apple — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 05:41:47 +0000

[url=http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/objects.html#adef-longdesc-IMG]See: longtext[/url]. This will also fix the nested quotes problem with your alt text.

By: Yannick

Yannick — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 04:44:25 +0000

The text makes a very long line with w3m, but it works. ;-)