¹ With apologies to Gene Roddenberry. et. al. 🖖🏻

² Certain aspects of the typewriter still affect the way we do and conceive of word processing.

³ Romanic refers to those languages that use the Latin alphabet regardless of their linguistic relationships.

⁴ The creole language spoken in northern mainland Papua New Guinea.

⁵ The nearly extinct Australian Aboriginal language of Western Australia.

⁶ An Eastern Aramaic language that was once spoken across much of the Fertile Crescent.

⁷ The constructed language spoken by Klingons in the fictional Star Trek universe.

⁸ Nisus Writer Classic introduced this feature in version 3 in the early ’90s when the application was still called simply Nisus. At that time, and until now, it was called “noncontiguous selection”. Because various forms of the term are now in use, we have decided to change the term to “multipart” which seems a bit simpler and clearer.

⁹ This printer is used as the example, not because it is better than any other, nor because it may, or may not be comparable to the vast majority of printers, but because it happens to be available.

¹⁰ The term “metacharacter” refers to the character standing for something beyond the “normal” “literal” or “usual” meaning of the character (similar to the use of the word “metaphysics”).

¹¹ The term “metacharacter” refers to the character standing for something beyond the “normal” “literal” or “usual” meaning of the character (similar to the use of the word “metaphysics”). 

¹² Williams, Robin. The Mac is not a typewriter. Peachpit Press, Berkeley, CA. 1990.

¹³ This is a “gzipped” RTF file. For more information see Appendix II, the Glossary of Useful Terms beginning on page 705.

¹⁴ For more information about LibreOffice check their Website.

¹⁵ Some fonts consist of nothing but dingbats.