" But the use of the superscript "th" in one document - "111th F.I.S" - gave
each expert pause. They said that is an automatic feature found in current
versions of Microsoft Word, and it's not something that was even possible
more than 30 years ago. "
" "That would not be possible on a typewriter or even a word processor at
that time," said John Collins, vice president and chief technology officer
at Bitstream Inc., the parent of MyFonts.com. "
Now hold on one minute. My old manual type writer had a superscript "th". In
fact it had an entire half-line-lift key that allowed the superscripting of
almost anything. On top of that, it even had a special key with a small "th"
as the lower case position and a small "nd" when shifted up. This was a
totally manual type writer - not even electric. So that part of the article
is total and complete bull.
I might agree with the proportional font thing though. I can not remember a
proportional font word processor until well after 1972.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 5:17 PM
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] 60 Minutes Documents on Bush Believed Fake
> Denys, is that you?
> "LynchburgRecord" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
> news:aebe8e96.0409091359.987d17f@posting.google.com...
> > 60 Minutes Documents on Bush Believed Fake. See Drudge Report.
> >
> >
http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewPolitics.asp?Page=\Politics\archive\200409\POL20040909d.html
> >
> >
> > " '60 Minutes' Documents on Bush Might Be Fake /// 32-year-old
> > documents produced Wednesday by CBSNEWS 60 MINS on Bush's guard
> > service may have been forged using a current word processing program
> > // typed using a proportional font, not common at that time, and they
> > used a superscript font feature found in today's Microsoft Word
> > program, Internet reports claim... Developing... "
>
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