Well, all of freeper repeaterville has it now Though I saw it first on powerlineblog.com Yes, there were other fonts available for insert into the ball-type typewriters. The issue here (as I understand it) is that the documents are not produced in a unispace font (like courier), but a font with different spacing for different letters (the little "i" is narrower than the capital "O", etc) like the popular Times Roman fonts. It was theoretically possible (something called a varitype machine), but highly difficult to produce something like this document - and would never be done on a personal memo. The memos are also on 8.5x11" stock when the military standard was 8x10.5 And the memo actually has the smaller font-size "th" in a couple places ("187th") - which was not possible on ANY typewriter in 1973. In short, they conclude it was produced on a modern word processor, not a 1970's typewriter. And the author is not around to verify them (dead). Now, I have NOT seen the documents yet and don't know how much (or any) of this is true. Merely the accusation.... But it does concern me. If they are forgeries - the election is likely over.
Col. Killian died a long time ago. There is no conceivable reason he would have been keeping a unique file on fairly trivial personnel issues concerning a junior officer about to leave the service. If there are NOT hundreds of comparable Killian memos on assorted routine business matters, something is wrong.
FWIW, I don't believe these documents are forged, mainly because it would be incredibly reckless to pull a stunt like that on what is, at bottom, still a triviality.
The blog says it is smaller. So to accomplish it you would have to roll the platten up and replace the ball - then type two letters and replace the ball again and roll it back down. I've found a source that says proportional fonts were possible, but hasn't found THE font involved yet (I've seen it now, it sure looks like a member of the Times Roman family) as being available for the Selectric. None of the other documents from that command (of those that were released) indicate anything like this was in use though. I now begin to worry a tad.
I was wondering what they were saying over there. I refuse to even look as it would affect my blood pressure.
Actually, I'm rather impressed with the candor and logic expressed in three of the posts. I didn't think they had it in them.
I happen to know a bit about the 1970's vintage selectric as I owned one. My dad's thesis in mathematical statistics was typed on it. I typed my papers in college on it. I'm pretty familar with the whole type/font thing on them since I had lots of different symbol balls needed to type all the various complex mathematical expressions. This wasn't typed on an early 1970's Selectric. The DUers have reason to be worried.
Someone is desperate.
"If they are forgeries - the election is likely over."
I think he may be right.
Forget the memo.
Rational replies on DU? Indications that there is intelligent, thoughtful life there. Ha!
Your quotes are fake.
Uh .... best to leave the forensics to experts. To type a superscript, you need to roll the platen down, type the characters, and then roll the platen backl up to return to the typing line.