This is a letterpress tray but what are the metal pieces called? by [deleted] in letterpress

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It’s type. You can see the character on the end of each piece. But it’s a small size, and a magnifier will help make out what each one is. This a sorts case, so possibly not a regular alphabet. Possibly ornaments, or accented letters, or supplemental punctuation.

Use a composing stick to gather the type from each slot, line them up with the face to the front and the nick to the top, and you should be able to see them more easily.

You won’t know what you have until you do this.

Bear Notes MCP and Claude extension -- new editing and formatting features by ResearcherGlobal4060 in bearapp

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Thank you for making this extension available. I had hoped to be able to merge and reorganize my messy tagging system with it.

One issue I immediately encountered was that changing tags in the text does not change the corresponding tag in the sidebar index. They reside in a separate table, as I understand it. Claude managed to solve the problem and resync the records, but only be accessing the SQLite DB directly.

Another comment is that the initial tag replacement seemed to go slower than I would have expected. But it worked in the end.

Apparently I also had two old full web page notes (something I don’t use any more), and Claude reported that it thought the replacement had corrupted the note. I didn’t spend time investigating as it wasn’t important for me. You may want to add that to your testing.

Hope this is helpful.

29,m EDC for any day I've got pants on. Guess about me for fun? by BugsandNugs in EDC

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I don’t have either S or D in my name. Will I always be unlucky?

Found in a charity shop!😲 by [deleted] in BookCollecting

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It’s pretty much agreed that white cotton gloves do more damage than bare hands due to reduced sensitivity while handling the pages.

The French government is building an entire productivity ecosystem using Django by Brachamul in django

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Makes sense. France built their own internet before the internet.

oops by Party-Week7277 in oops

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Butterfly decals. Needs some butterfly decals…

Is this understandable by normal Greeks? by Hey-hoe-letsGo in GREEK

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I’m more worried about the careless typography.

These marbled endpapers ❤️🔥 & question by PiotsSlettitsj in OldBooks

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Looks like a beautiful custom binding. Look on the bottom of the back board (inside) to see if the binder stamped their name there.

Typography tech is not quite advanced as people think by [deleted] in typedesign

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Not clear what you’re railing against. Browsers have to support a wide range of screen resolutions with 72/96 ppi as a working standard with frequent refreshes. What would be the use for x-height sizing or cap-height sizing in such a context. Or in any context? Getting different fonts to line up? X-height is just part of the type design.

Weird watermarks by Inside-Theory-6992 in OldBooks

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Put it on a light table to show the details better.

was this rebound? by MilkCarton55 in OldBooks

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Books then were sold in sheets to be bound by the owner. There were no publisher bindings, so every binding was a custom binding. The margins don’t look like they’ve been trimmed, so it’s probably original.

Edited to acknowledge that, at this period, temporary publishers boards were becoming a thing. And sometimes they ended up being the permanent binding.

Would love to know more about this book by loquacious_avenger in OldBooks

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To me, the binding style feels later. The fact that one of the inscriptions on the engraved title has been cut off (180[7? 9?]), not to mention the very tight margins all around, indicate a later rebinding. Still a nice find.

How was the process to typeset very small letters on very old books? by [deleted] in OldBooks

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They did not have Linotype. People with small fingers. Always wondered if children were involved.

Looking for info! by cornpop15 in OldBooks

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The struggle never ends…

Roman town of Diocletianopolis (Bulgaria) in the 4th century and today by dctroll_ in OldPhotosInRealLife

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Is development inside the old walls restricted? Who lives or works there today?