[GreenKeys] TTYs in news service

[Sheldon Daitch]

The earlier AP Style Guides had some technical notes on formatting for 
the sports
boxes and going from memory, maybe the market reports.

IIRC, it was more oriented toward the old hot lead type set ups, the proper
number of spaces, en and em, I think and the adjustable spacing, so the TTY
data would fill in the blanks and the paper print format would work 
properly.

I suspect there was also some technical standards for the TTY signal itself,
probably industry wide standards, no doubt CR CR LF to make sure the
print basket returned to the left margin in time for the first printed 
character of
the new line.

I would assume the UPI had similar, but I don't know it for a fact.

As for reporting work and story writing, don't know.

73
Sheldon

STEPHEN JONES wrote:
> I've been looking through a few copies from TTYs that were from news
> service and I'm wondering if there were standard rules for transmissions
> or did it vary from source to source?  What I'm specifically looking for
> is field work and other internal work such as story drafts and such.
> There doesn't seem to be too much of this documented, but maybe I'm
> just not looking in the right place.
>
> I'd also like to see if there is an archive of wire service news.
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