Re: Corpora: rotagraph

From: Francis Bond (bond@csli.stanford.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 18 2000 - 17:30:03 MET DST

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    G'day,
    Pieter> Dear all, One of my literary colleagues has recently come
    Pieter> across the term "rotagraph" in an early 20th century
    Pieter> letter. The term was used by an author who writes that he has
    Pieter> received a rotagraph of the first 50 pages of his intended
    Pieter> book from Oxford University Press. Apparently te term refers
    Pieter> to a technique or procedure which was new at the time. The
    Pieter> term does not occur in the OED.

    Pieter> Does anybody know the term? Could this term have referred to
    Pieter> (the equivalent of) proof pages?

    1 definition found in the excellent public domain Webster's:

    >From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

      Rotograph \Ro"to*graph\ (?), n. (Photography)
         A photograph printed by a process in which a strip or roll of
         sensitized paper is automatically fed over the negative so
         that a series of prints are made, and are then developed,
         fixed, cut apart, and washed at a very rapid rate.

    Also:

    rotograph

    n. photograph of manuscript, etc., made direct on bromide paper
       without negative.
    <http://www.lineone.net/dictionaryof/difficultwords/d0011221.html>

    I think a rotograph could have been used for proof pages.

    -- 
    Francis Bond <bond@cslab.kecl.ntt.co.jp>
    CSLI, Stanford (IAP Visitor 1999-2000) <hpsg.stanford.edu/hpsg/lingo.html>
    NTT Machine Translation Research Group <www.kecl.ntt.co.jp/icl/mtg/>
    



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