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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Ilaine who wrote (69074)9/10/2004 11:53:28 PM
From: R2O  Read Replies (1) of 793843
 
Ahh ... but what you see is not guaranteed to be what you print. You only hope it may be.

The type I see in some of the bush docs looks somewhat like a font made for TeX that attempted to make a somewhat 'realistic' 'manual typewriter' look ... hairy imprints, cloth ribbon marks, offset/twisted characters, etc.

Since one has Kerry documents available at FindLaw, complete with real Kerry signatures, one can make any memo that one wants with Kerry's signature. Perhaps even both Kerry and Bush signatures. Perhaps they even have a contract to share power. Without provenance, copies of documents are almost worthless. And all documents that come to us via 'word processing' are 'copies'. And all copies (since few unscanned copiers exist) probably can't be distinguished from 'originals'.

BTW, many selectric balls existed. And key 'caps' for executive typewriters also existed for e.g. scientific papers. Math symbols were assembled from bits and pieces. There probably was a small super-th, etc., available. And, of course, the docs COULD have been printed in 1970, or even 1920 ... typography has long history ... but probably TNG didn't have typesetting machines... probably. Probably no linotype or hot type either ... probably. But not certainty.

And I seem to remember that there were 'kerning' balls available for proportional spaced 'selectrics'. But this may have only been an internal IBM development. Not hard to do manually either. The tough 'compute' part is in the head of the typist. Jog - Jog. So I guess you have to admire the TNG guy who typeset as a hobby.
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