[Framers] FrameMaker keyboard shortcuts just stop

[Peter Gold]

You're welcome, Pat. I got a big laugh from it the first time I saw it back
in the '90s. IIRC, Janice Gelb originally posted it. As I think more on it,
I'm pretty sure that she claimed to have translated it. Whatever, she
deserves the credit!


On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 9:46 AM, Pat Christenson <
Pat.Christenson at morningstar.com> wrote:

> Peter, thanks for making me laugh. I'd never heard about the lorem ipsum
> translation.
>
> Pat
>
> So, the ancient recollection of something eating keystrokes was
> generically on the right troubleshooting path. Hooray!
>
> As to other old memories:
>
> FullWrite Professional (a promising feature-filled Mac word processor) had
> the fantastic ability to randomly animate bullet points, so, there was no
> reason to get bored while staring at pages of pithy tech content on screen.
> You could just watch and wait for one or more of them to hop around.
>
> Then, there was the post claiming that "lorem ipsum" placeholder text
> wasn't randomly-generated, but was arguably written by indentured scribes,
> forerunners of technical writers, because the translation was something
> like "we love to write and beat ourselves with sticks."
>
> Cheers!
>