[VRWC_minion]

unless someone did some deliberate formatting of certain letters or words to stretch or shrink them.

I experimented on my word program and I think found answer. If you use the letter l instead of the number 1, in word you get an exact sample of spacing that is in the orginal letter.

The problem with word is that as sson as you type the number 1 and the st after, it superscripts the st. To work around it, some people may have done different methods.

[doug from upland]

Good analysis. In WORD you can go up to Format, Font, and then you can remove the superscipt. Removing the superscript, leaves the gap between the 1 and the st.

This is getting very, very interesting.