I'm not disputing your whole message, no reason to reread it. I am disputing the passage I quoted.
I'm saying that the Executive had a half-space bar for the width of an i and a space bar for the width of an n, making an i one unit wide, an n two units wide, an m three units wide, etc. Stop me here if I'm wrong.
True Type divides them up into much smaller slices, with much finer resolution, plus kerning. You might have been very good with the Executive, but you would not match what a modern word processor and laser printer do, such that one would not be able to tell the difference. No way.
I'd definitely like to see you try.
"True Type divides them up into much smaller slices, with much finer resolution, plus kerning. You might have been very good with the Executive, but you would not match what a modern word processor and laser printer do, such that one would not be able to tell the difference. No way.
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You'd be able to tell the difference, of course, if you held them next to each other, even. But the point is that, while I could make a nice document (the reason the Executive was created), it would have taken a lot of work, and I wouldn't have done it if I were some officer.
This was deliberate, and it was clumsy enough to get caught immediately. One "th" down, one "th" up. Why? So you'd notice the Word-like superscript right off the bat.
This was not done by an idiot. It was done by someone for some reason who wanted the forgery discovered. Who, I don't know. Why, I don't know. Time for the tinfoil.