Date   : Mon, 10 Jun 2013 21:44:20 +0100
From   : famrowland@... (Andrew Rowland)
Subject: Acorn newline sequence

On 09.06.2013 23:29, J.G.Harston wrote:
> Stephen Harris wrote:
>>> With my manual typewriter when you push the newline lever across from
>>> the right to the left it moves the carriage across, and then at the
>>> maximum extent it engages the cogs to move the drum up one line. So,
>>> <cr><lf> (<13><10>).
>> Huh; that's different the one I used as a kid.  I got used to gentle
>> taps of the handle to do a line feed.
> I had an Remington International. Weighed about two stone ;)
>
OK. On the one I used, if you pushed the lever really gently, the 
carriage returned to the left and when it met the stop, the lever 
advanced the paper. But if you went at it quickly and sharply, the paper 
advanced first and then the carriage returned. It was a whole thing to 
do with the inertia of the carriage.

But can we emulate that in software??? You know, <LF><CR> if you just 
tap Return and <CR><LF> if you give it some welly?

Andrew