Steve Hix wrote:
In article ,
Bill Jameson wrote:


BUFDRVR wrote:

Tom Cervo wrote:



Come off it, Dan, anyone who used a typewriter knew the trick of lifting
the
roller a smidge (or lowering it) for sub (or super) script. You must not
have
ever typed footnotes.


The issue isn't the raised "th", but the fact that the "th" is written in a
smaller font as well.

From 1968 on SMC (Smith Corona) typewriters had two optional keyface
slots (shift one and shift +) for a number of optional letters, accents
and marks. I had section and paragraph marks on mine as I clerked in a
law office. "rd" and "nd" superscripts were also available.


Did they also offer proportional spacing and intercharacter kerning?

Well, contemporary to the SCM typewriters above, the IBM Executive
models did have proportional spacing and intercharacter kerning. These
were typebar models (not typeball like the IBM Selectric) The backspace
on the one I used would move 1/5 of the width of the letter "w."

I do not know if any of the IBM Executives had something similar to the
optional keyspace slots on the SCM. The one I used certainly didn't as I
can still remember making section mark symbols with capital 'S,'
backspace, backspace, backspace, roll platten down, capital 'S.'

Bill Jameson