Yet Another Richard Katz Claim on CBS Fall Flat on Its Face
I forgot to note in my previous post that software designer Richard Katz, who defends the CBS documents, also doesn’t seem to do a very good job analyzing fonts. He claims in a CBS story,
Richard Katz, a software designer, found some other indications in the documents. He noted that the letter “L” is used in those documents, instead of the numeral “one.” That would be difficult to reproduce on a computer today.
Except, as Joseph Newcomer points out here this is simply not true — the 1s in the memos are the numerical “one.”
How can Newcomer be so certain? Because the ones in “111th” in the memo take up more horizontal space than the lower cased Ls in “will” and “Ellingsworth” also in the memo. Why would this happen? Because even typewriters that used proportional spacing used monospaced numeric characters so that tables of numbers can line up nicely. The number 1s in the memos are clearly monospaced numerals, not lower-cased ls.
What kind of software does Katz design?
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Sep 14th, 2004
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