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To: Spheres who wrote (68547)9/9/2004 4:53:11 PM
From: aladin  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793623
 
Spheres,

But - and its a biggy - while the IBM Selectric II Correcting typewriter could superscript - it would do so with fonts the same size.

Besides that - it wasn't introduced until 1973 and did not have any version of a Times Roman font.

Ignoring all facts - it would be pretty hard to imagine a Microsoft copyrighted font being an exact match over multiple lines using a default setting to any manual typewriter.

John



To: Spheres who wrote (68547)9/9/2004 4:53:58 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793623
 
Nobody copies a typeface that's still under copyright. That's like copying a logo. Your explanation makes as much sense as BurgerKing copying McDonald's yellow arches.

It may be too hard for you to see, but try looking at various Times Roman faces in WordPerfect, Word, Adobe, and if your attention to detail is good you'll see very subtle differences.


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