[narby]

In all fairness, back in the stone ages we used to center on mechanical typewriters all the time. It's just that the typist did the math rather than having the computer figure it out. :-)

Yes, that was certianly easy to do, IF YOU DON'T USE PURPORTIONAL TYPE!

To do the same with purportional type, you would have to compute the exact spacing for every letter, and space over the exact amount INCLUDING FRACTIONAL "SPACES". Old purportional typewriters could backspace less than one "real" space.

It may not have been possible at all to create this document with a typewriter, IF it proves that not even these sub-spaces will work exactly.

BUSTED!

This is hard-core proof!

[alnick]

Yes, that was certianly easy to do, IF YOU DON'T USE PURPORTIONAL TYPE!

Great point, which escaped me when I made my initial comment about centering.