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Excerpts from David M. Cole's message at 10:44 on 30 Aug 96:

> *Most editorial front-end systems don't have much flexibility in collecting
> wire input, but those that do can be programmed to search for instances of
> (at) and transform them into the editorial system's equivilent of the @
> sign or (tilde) and switch in the ~ sign.

Ah, for the good old days of SII System 55 maps, which we set up 
to translate such things as AP's relatively new spelling of 
"cigarette" to our hidebound spelling of "cigaret." 

I had forgotten about the fractions -- necessary for markets agate.
But I'll quibble, from memory, about bold and italic.

^ was upper rail, as I recall, resulting in that line being bold
(thusly named because bold font mats were kept on a rail that
physically was above the light ones on a Linotype). @, as I recall,
was reserved for "alternate character set," not necessarily -- though
typically -- defined as italic. I can recall remapping @ as a bullet
character on remote transmissions, proving my own lack of foresight 
about e-mail addresses being something we'd ever want to tranmit.
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