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To: i-node who wrote (201950)	9/14/2004 9:56:47 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) of 1573216

The issue is whether it could be produced in proportionally spaced type. Of course it could. Typewriters like the IBM executive had individual type strikers and could have pretty much any character. (They had two characters per striker, a normal and a shifted character). The strikers were of different widths to support the proportional font so it was just a matter of choosing a key to place the special character that had the proper width. The typewriter, of course, had to be equipped with a proportional font, like Times New Roman. TP

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