Posted on 09/09/2004 1:39:31 PM PDT by Steven W.
I think it's because it's a pain to manage leadings and the like in an edit control, even a custom edit control like Word uses, when you already have CFE_SUBSCRIPT or CFE_SUPERSCRIPT built into the control.
I like your explanation better. It's simpler. (Man, I haven't done MFC in several years and can't remember any of it anymore).
1-- proportional spacing not generally available
2 -- superscripts not generally available
3 - small "th" single element not generally available
4 - Smart quotes. Curved apostrophes and quotation marks were not available
5-The blurriness of the copy indicates it was recopied dozens of times, tactic of forgers
6--Signature block. Typical authentic military signature block has name, then rank, then on the next line the person's position. This just has rank beneath the name.
7--Margins. These look like a computer's unjustified default, not the way a person typing would have done it.
8 -- Date usually with three letters, or in form as 110471.
9 - words run over consistent with word processor
10 - may be a Times Roman or similar font not generally available then (per Haas Atlas)
11 - signature looks faked
12 - no errors and whiteout
13 - no letterhead
14 - exact match for Microsoft Word Processor
15 - Paper size problem, Air Force and Guard did not use 8 1/2 x 11 inch paper until the 1980s.
16 - Overlap analysis is an exact match
17 - absence of hyphens to split words between lines, c/w 1970's typewriter.
18 - 5000 Longmont #8 in Houston Tx. does not exist
19 - Box 34567 is suspicious, at best. The current use of the po box 34567 is Ashland Chemical Company, A Division of Ashland Oil, Incorporated P. O. Box 34567 Houston
20 - it would have been nearly impossible to center a letterhead with proportional spacing without a computer.
21 - Bush's grade would "normally" be abbreviated "1Lt" not "1st Lt"
22 - Subject matter bizarre
23 - Air Force did not use street addresses for their offices, rather HQ AFLC/CC, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433.
24 - kerning was not available
25 - In the August 18, 1973 memo, Jerry Killian purportedly writes: "Staudt has obviously pressured Hodges more about Bush. I'm having trouble running interference and doing my job." but General Staudt, who thought very highly of Lt. Bush, retired in 1972.
26 - Language not generally used by military
27 - Not signed or initialed
28 - Not in any format that a military person would use, e.g. orders not given by Memo.
Good work
not later than(NLT)
I was the worst typist ( lucky for me that wasn't my job ) in the Air Force, and even I knew you didn't explain acronyms. You either used just the acronym or expanded it, not both. If somebody didn't know what the acronym meant, tough. Note that later the "writer" doesn't expand "IAW". For those few who don't know that means "In Accordance With.
Night bump
WOW, ain't no typewriter in the world can do that. HAHAHAHAHA, caught with their pants down.
You guys are going way overboard with this, and we're going to get burned. Times Roman was designed by Morris Benton in 1931, and became widely available through Merganthaler Linotype shortly after. Superscripts, centering, and proportional spacing was available on IBM selectric based "typesetting' systems at the time. I know because I worked on them. Let's be real careful here and double check our facts, unlike CBS.
I connected all the dots and found that they form the shape of a pair of flip-flops
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