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To: ctdonath2

This looks good except for something I saw right away. In the first sentence, the "1st" clearly has more spacing between the 1 and the letter s. How is that explained?


75 posted on 09/09/2004 2:49:28 PM PDT by doug from upland (Who has yellow cake? I want to weaponize my spitballs.)
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To: doug from upland
This looks good except for something I saw right away. In the first sentence, the "1st" clearly has more spacing between the 1 and the letter s. How is that explained?

It seems clear to me that someone wrinkled up the original typed letter and then copied it. That would account for variations.

101 posted on 09/09/2004 2:59:01 PM PDT by VRWC_minion ( I'll send email telling you where to send check.)
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To: doug from upland
In the first sentence, the "1st" clearly has more spacing between the 1 and the letter s. How is that explained?

Two possibilities:

1. The "original" has a gradual variation of width, as not all matches up exactly everywhere. This is likely due to a series of faxing/photocopying operations, where analog optical errors were introduced.

2. The font rendering software may be slightly different between the systems that I used and the forger used, causing a slightly different spacing/kerning in certain character combinations.

Don't miss the forest for the trees.

245 posted on 09/09/2004 7:17:59 PM PDT by ctdonath2
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To: doug from upland
In the first sentence, the "1st" clearly has more spacing between the 1 and the letter s. How is that explained?

Two possibilities:

1. The "original" has a gradual variation of width, as not all matches up exactly everywhere. This is likely due to a series of faxing/photocopying operations, where analog optical errors were introduced.

2. The font rendering software may be slightly different between the systems that I used and the forger used, causing a slightly different spacing/kerning in certain character combinations.

Don't miss the forest for the trees.

249 posted on 09/09/2004 7:31:53 PM PDT by ctdonath2
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To: doug from upland

Correction: the discrepancy is that there is a space between the 1 and the st, which is narrow enough that I overlooked it - and such narrow spaces just were not done on typewriters then.


266 posted on 09/10/2004 3:25:13 AM PDT by ctdonath2
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