[GreenKeys] AP Style Book for Teletypesetter Circuits

dmm at lemur.com dmm at lemur.com
Sat Mar 20 14:38:31 EDT 2010


It occurred to me that a booklet relevant to the Teletypesetter
has recently been put online in a location where it might escape
the attention of the Teletype community.  It is:

   _The AP Style Book for Teletypesetter Circuits_

and it is in the Downloadable Documents section of Dave Seat's website:

http://www.hotmetalservices.com/downloadable_documents.htm

(Dave and Beth Seat are some of the few remaining Linotype repairpeople,
and they're the only *traveling* Linotype repair team around.)

For the most part, this AP Style Book is just that - a guide to
style, punctuation, and the like.  Pages 2-3 of it, though, do have
some technical information about TTS circuits/use.

There is one item I haven't been able to figure out in it.
On page 3, they give an example of the first slug (line) cast
from a TTS-submitted story.  It starts with the story number
("37" in this case) followed by what I believe are supposed to be
eyeball characters as read on the tape (but of course meaningless
when set as text on a slug).  The trouble is, using the TTS code,
I can't seem to make these come out to anything readable at all,
much less "37".  The slug/line given reads:

37 xpck lbdc R810 aes 8

Here, for reference, is the TTS 6-level code:
http://www.lemur.com/temp/fairchild-tts-tape-code-pocket-rule-verso-small.jpg

I'm sure that I'm doing something quite dumb here, but when I asked
this question of the Linotype community a few weeks ago, and we 
couldn't figure it out then.

Regards,
David M.
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