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There's a lot of talk on the blogosphere today about the Bush Memos being forged.
I looked at the memos (pdf)
and it takes all of one minute to see that it's true. The kerning is obviously
a Times New Roman class.
UPDATE: This from Little
Green Footballs - an animated gif showing the
Word version and the Memo itself.
Chris Brooks, my boss, had the most damning comment: Look at the superscript for crying
out loud. I gasped. It's the "autocorrect" feature in Word creating a "th" after
a number. Oy. Someone needs to lose their job. It's a shame, as
I liked Dan Rather.
Here's IBM Composser guy's thoughts on making a "th" in 1973:
A: Yes, but not in one keystroke. To type 111th, you would first type "111", then
remove the 11pt font element, and replace it with an 8pt element, then change the
escapement (horizontal spacing) to the narrowest setting, half reverse index the paper,
type "th". Then, you have to reverse that process by half indexing the paper back
down, replacing the 8pt font element with an 11pt font element,...
Here's the Word version, compare yourself.
Steve Richter had a lot of links to bloggers who are following the story:
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