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To: aladin who wrote (68548)9/9/2004 5:10:58 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 793622
 
But - and its a biggy - while the IBM Selectric II Correcting typewriter could superscript - it would do so with fonts the same size

Selectics came with Elite (12 point) and Pica (10 point) balls. You could switch to Pica for sub- and superscripts if you wanted to take the trouble. But it doesn't look anything like the superscripting in Word, which for a 12 point text, uses the same font about about 8 points.

IBM Selectrics were great typewriters. I used them a lot in the late 1970s. You could get a ball with Greek characters to type in Greek. Since I was a classics student at the time, I used this feature. When they introduced auto-correction (introduced in the early 70s, but a luxury for a long while), it was a great help because the Selectric handled paper very precisely and the corrected letter could be counted on to strike in the same place as the original letter - not something you could count on for most typewriters.

But it did NOT have proportional fonts or curly apostrophes. And it was the best typewriter of its day.
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