Posted on 09/10/2004 2:10:04 AM PDT by VisualizeSmallerGovernment
It's amazing how obvious the forgery is when you see a real typewriter proportional typeface.
Me too.
Me three. Here I've been, correcting Word for all these years and in fleeting moments idly wondering why the programmers didn't bother to get it right. Now I find out The World Has Changed and I didn't get the memo. Just out of curiousity, why did the style change? Was it the shift to proportional fonts?
I'm one of the many who have gotten a quickie education on fontology here in the last 24 hours, and I suppose in the old monospace fonts the double space was important to visually set off the break. With a proportional font, each word coheres and the extra space may not be needed. Any other ideas? I mean, this kind of change is epochal, and surely there is a good explanation.
Yup I remember that from my 71L days (Army Clerk Typist) to centered the cariage and then use the back space for the text for AABBCCDD it would be AA<BB<CC<DD< and so on. Only worked right if you had an even number of letters in the heading. Often inserted spaces to make things come out even.
FWIW...they were still teaching "double-space at the end of sentences" in the mid-70's, too.
This is so fascinating. I had a divorce case two years ago where the adverse party in a hearing before I was the wife's attorney, introduced an email where she supposedly admitted to theft and fraud. Even without the money for an expert, I was able to show the judge how anyone could have produced that email and, in fact, that the husband's mispelling and poor punctuation in other emails which he admitted to sending were identical. It was fun.
I still do this now. I took typing in 1984 and double space after period is what I was taught.
Really! Next thing you know, they will let us print out envelopes with those fancy barcodes, and skip the stamps all together?
:)
Nah, if you believe they can do that you probably believe we could like get airplane boarding passes on line. Some things just won't happen!
>>Did anyone else love typing in high school? I mourned the loss of typewriter <<
I took typing in 8th grade on standard (non-electrics) typewriter, and no, I don't miss them one bit.
I got a decent electric during my senior year since I did a lot of typing. When I went to college the next year, I had unlimited access to IBM PC's (unlike today or even 15 years ago, not all students at that time did), and immediately got going on MS Word in DOS. I had my own floppy and saved the files on there. I don't think the PC even had a hard drive.
At any rate, I had to type a 12-15 page paper that I'd already hand-written out (probably the last time) and I wasn't sure about using endnotes in Word, so instead of spending 15 minutes figuring that out (it was late the night before it was due), I typed the paper on the typewriter. It was November 1985, and the last time I used a typewriter other than if an employer had one and I used it for non-traditional documents (like carbonless paper).
FWIW...they were still teaching "double-space at the end of sentences" in the mid-70's, too.
Just asked my 8th grader how many spaces he was taught to use at the end of a sentence when he learned keyboarding in 4th grade. He was taught to double space at just about the time I was trying to unlearn double spacing! None of it matters because word processing programs do what they're gonna' do unless you tell them otherwise.
I thought the superscrpt "th" was smaller on the documents involved. Not so on the image you supply.
They've had those for quite a few years. LOL :)
Ah, a person who is in the loop. For some of us, the loop takes years for us to find!
Ominuous foreshadowings, eh?
Amazing!
"It was fun."
Impeachment is one of the neater things in life.
Yep. Just look at the documents on Kerry's website, and they are compliant with typewritten documents of the era. How come the ones to frame W are not? Really dumb!
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