william bright wrote:

> i've wondered: did those old textbooks on gregg and pitman actually have
> some way of printing the letters and words from movable type? or did they
> just use lithography, like urdu printers (at least until recently)?

I only have a couple, but if they're printed from type, then they're
*incredibly* carefully done. Some sort of photographic process is most
likely.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...