1 - hillbilly74
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How to know when you've reached the last line?
Hello everyone, my name is Robert and I just restored my great-grandfather's Underwood Touch-Master Five. I love these old manual typewriters, allows me to write and not constantly go back every three sentences and edit :D
How do you guys/gals know when you are at the end of the page? Just guestament? Or, is there something I am overlooking? Since I started using the typewriter to work on my book, I made a template in OpenOffice with line numbers every fifth line, down to 25, which is my last line, so I get approximately 250 words per page. I'd love to hear everyone's technique on how you know you are on the last line of the page. Thank you very much!
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- Uwe
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Re: How to know when you've reached the last line?
Many typewriters have platens that keep track of page use. If you have a machine without that feature, and it's important to know when you're near the bottom, you could always just put a tiny pencil mark in the left margin where your last line shoud be.
I've got three Touch-Master Five machines, and although they changed slightly during their production run, I don't think any have this feature.
The pronoun I has always been capitalized in the English language for more than 700 years.
- hillbilly74
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Re: How to know when you've reached the last line?
Thank you very much! Don't know why I never thought of a pencil mark, I guess it wasn't complicated enough 
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Thread Starter- Ektagraphic
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Re: How to know when you've reached the last line?
Some machines also had a bar that would pop up to both hold up your page, and measure how much you had left to type.
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Re: How to know when you've reached the last line?
[img]file:///Users/PatrickMont/Desktop/image1.JPG[/img]Sorry. I am trying to get a picture uploaed for an example. No sucess yet.
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Re: How to know when you've reached the last line?
Ektagraphic wrote:
[img]file:///Users/PatrickMont/Desktop/image1.JPG[/img]Sorry. I am trying to get a picture uploaed for an example. No sucess yet.
Instructions, if you're having trouble, are in the FAQ topic, which is pinned in the Type Talk sub-forum.
The pronoun I has always been capitalized in the English language for more than 700 years.
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Re: How to know when you've reached the last line?
I used the mark at the bottom of the page technique when I was in high school, back in the, OMG, the 60's.
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I used the mark at the bottom of the page technique when I was in high school, back in the, OMG, the 60's.
I think that that technique was taught in my typing class in the 70's.
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Re: How to know when you've reached the last line?
I know I've reached the last line when the bar maid says "Get out of here. We're closing!" [joke]
Making the tiny little pencil mark is the usual way. I've fiddled with those end-of-page scales on the platen and they take a while to set up for each page and I'm changing typers so often I never have gotten any use out of them. My method is to use a three-hole punch on my typing paper (since I'm going to put it into a loose-leaf notebook anyway). The bottom hole is just about right for the bottom line of text. Then put two more lines and a page number and I'm done. Works every time!
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Re: How to know when you've reached the last line?
I used the mark at the bottom of the page technique when I was in high school, back in the, OMG, the 60's.
We still used it in the 80's.
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