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Comment by kjellsbells

Idle question: in the days before TeX, when manuscripts like this were hammered out on Remington office typewriters, how did authors handle symbols?

In this manuscript for example you can see that power superscripts are really just regular numbers typed at an offset (perhaps rotating the paper around the platen one notch instead of the two that would be a whole line feed). But what about the vectors and the giant sigma? All hand drawn over the top of a typed manuscript?

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