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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: unclewest who wrote (55572)	9/13/2004 12:00:35 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

if you are using a PC and want to conceal the MS word superscript. Once again, look to the narrative. What is your theory of the mindset, or skills, or behavior of this forger. You are proposing someone who is taking a lot of effort and using knowledge to supress the superscript, but didn't take the even easier step of changing the font to courier. It just doesn't hunt. There is no plausible explanation for a forger focusing, and knowledgeable of the details, but not taking the simple big picture steps. You can see the forger became careless and did not inseret the space. Viola! superscript was automatically inserted by word. Once again, you are proposing that the forger was knowledgeable about the superscript, and that it would give away his work, but then never proofread the result for this key combo that stands out. Still not hunting. It's much more likely that there was a key on this typewrite that had the superscript th as a single character. It's not the most usual key, so sometimes the typist remembered it, and sometimes they didn't. Kerning is another issue. The kerning of all the forgeries matches MS word precisely...Not close..PRECISELY. Yet MS word was not invented until the 1980s. You can prove that by typing any of the documents in MS word and using Adobe superimpose your typing on the CBS documents. Do them in different colors and look for color bleed. There will be NONE. Not even a smidgeon. This will only work if you have kerning NOT CHECKED. (go to the Format, Font, Character spacing settings). If you turn kerning on your little test will fail. That means there is NO KERNING. - This info tidbit is important when you consider the narrative of Karl Rove trying to muddy the issue. His minions keep harping on how kerning is only done by computers but explicitly avoids mentioning that there is no kerning exhibited in the memos. This should raise a red-flag about how much they are yanking your chain instead of feeding you accurate analysis. The centering is another key giveaway. all the addresses are perfectly centered. I've mentioned this before, it was an early lesson in typeing class. All you do is move the carriage to the center mark and then mumble to yourself the letters in the line you want to type. For each letter you press the backspace down, or release it. Then you are perfectly positioned to type the line centered. (i.e. you backspace once for every two letters) I also think these centered lines were copied for later use because they don't line up with the rest of the text in many cases. The kerning on each document is an exact match for MS word too. Only if kerning is Off. This has got to be the biggest clue that these guys are yanking your chain. They make a big deal about this issue, but in fact the default for Microsoft Word is to not use kerning. If you change the default all these little line-up tests fail. The default works because that is the way Times Roman font works for all the machines, including the IBM machines that Microsoft was trying to emulate with it's true-type technology. It was all done on the unit typewriter. I'd be surprised if there was only one typewriter involved. TP