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I took an image posted upthread and placed a grid over it. Note the typewritten characters align vertically in columns.

OK, but unless you can show that this document was produced in the same way as the WHLFBC, putting this up is meaningless.

The WHLFBC shows curvature at the left margin (like one would expect of a copy made from a bound volume). The 'grid' aligns with the characters along the left side. The right side characters align (or seem to) mostly with each other.

So your assertion here is what exactly? That there was a "forger" who took pains to make it look like this was copied initially from a bound volume? That such person was cognizant that to make it appear this was from an original typed document the characters needed to align and that he/she did this for the left side? But this person was just sloppy and didn't harmonize the left and right sides?

That strikes me as highly improbable.

Here's another theory: I posted earlier on this thread the conclusions of Ivan Zatkovich, who was hired by World News Daily to analyze the BC:

Zatkovich has 28 years experience in computer science and document management and for more than 10 years has been an expert witness providing testimony in federal court in both criminal and civil litigation.

His conclusions, in part:

“It has been suggested that these ‘suspicious white borders’ indicate that items were pasted into the image. The pasting of content itself does not necessarily create a white border. A more likely reason for this halo effect is that the text was enhanced,” the report said.

“This does not mean that other content in the document was not changed. However, most of the detectable changes are consistent with someone attempting to enhance the appearance of the document rather than change the content.”

Now when one feeds a document through a copier/scanner things can happen. Sometimes the page comes out skewed. Sometimes there are glitches in the document. Suppose that something like that ensued with the WHLBFC and that, as Zatkovich suggests, someone did a bit of "clean-up" to the image before posting it. Could that explain the alignment anomalies? Quite possibly.

It could be that the mis-alignment from left to right is a result of such a problem. It could be that the lens of the device used to copy or scan the document added some slight curvature to the resulting copy. We don't know.

I pointed out to DiogenesLamp that for such a technique to be validated, one must first have a set of controls to establish that the technique applied to the test subject is meaningful. I asked him whether this "Lord Moncton" he was holding up as an authority utilized any control(s).

DiogenesLamp quickly skee-daddled from the discussion. But, Ray, you will fare no better offering up this same technique unless you can validate the methodology.