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To: dickmc
The request was too arcane. It looked like you needed a volunteer to collect them before anyone needed to sign, and since I wasn't going to be that volunteer (lots of grading and a grant proposal due at the moment), I didn't respond.

BTW: point 11 which is largely based on my posts is weakened by the suggestion that the unsuperscripted 111th's in the letterhead weren't done in the simplest way: using lower case L's (Word doesn't autosuperscript after lower case L's). It's a much simpler explanation for the two tell-tale superscripts and the spaces to assume the forger made only two errors with regard to suppressing superscripts: not spacing after the 187 and using ones (1) out of habit rather than using lower case L's in the 111th which had a superscript, rather than some roundabout route with backspacing or inserting th's late. (That explanation is almost as convoluted as the way one would get superscripts with an IBM Composer.) Certainly one can get unsupercripted ordinals in Word with the defaults on by inserting the suffix after the fact, or backspacing, but we want Occam's Razor to cut in our favor on all points.

18 posted on 09/23/2004 1:58:45 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know what this was)
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To: The_Reader_David

Unfortunately the key Newcomer analysis at http://www.flounder.com/bush2.htm clearly confirms from the spacing analysis that the "111" are not lower case "LLL" but actual numbers. Actually, when mentioned it is pretty clear as numbers are uniformly and somewhat wide spaced, but "lll" (as in lower case L's) are proportionately spaced and much tighter together as in "lst". Thus, that section had to be rewritten to accommodate that additional information that the one's in the heading are clearly numbers.

If you have some edits that you would like to suggest, please let me know as we had to redo some of the links anyway.

Regards, Dick


24 posted on 09/23/2004 2:17:30 PM PDT by dickmc
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