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Re: Font Fondlers - The US Presidental Election Is in Your Hands!
Subject:Re: Font Fondlers - The US Presidental Election Is in Your Hands! From:cchris -at- toptechwriter -dot- us To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 14 Sep 2004 12:54:57 -0600
> > It might be the end of John Kerry and Dan Rather, but that's all.
>
> Or Shrub and Rove and O'Reilly, but I think Andrew's comment brings up an
> interesting point--the attention to fonts and superscripts and spacing and
> proportionality in the hands of "amateurs" can be dangerous. A little
> learning and all. As we all know, the IBM Selectric with superscript and
> Times Roman were around long before these docs were written. As Yogi Berra
> said, "You could look it up." I know that my '50s manual Royal typewriter
> has superscript keys for "th" and "st" and more....
And as we all know, if you sat down at a Selectric 30 years ago and
started typing it wouldn't be at all strange if the results matched what
came out of the default template in MS Word today.
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