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To: supercat

All the arguments, pro & con about kerning, proportional spacing, line spacing render mute the ultimate conclusion:

When the CBS meno is typed in MS WORD, the CBS memo overlays EXACTLY the memo typed in WORD. No one, as far as I know, has typed the memo on an IBM Selectric of that vintage that will overlay the CBS memo.

Am I missing something?


61 posted on 09/12/2004 7:08:02 PM PDT by cliff630 (cliff630 (Didn't Christ ask Pilate, "What is the Truth." Even while looking in the face of TRUTH))
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62 posted on 09/12/2004 7:10:42 PM PDT by Sir Gawain
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To: cliff630
When the CBS meno is typed in MS WORD, the CBS memo overlays EXACTLY the memo typed in WORD. No one, as far as I know, has typed the memo on an IBM Selectric of that vintage that will overlay the CBS memo.

Right. While someone with lead type probably could produce a document that matched any given character or line spacing, there is no reason to believe that somebody setting lead type in Times New Roman would just so happen to add just the right amount of extra space after each character to precisely match MS Word.

64 posted on 09/12/2004 7:52:05 PM PDT by supercat (If Kerry becomes President, nothing bad will happen for which he won't have an excuse.)
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