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Does anyone else find it surprising and remarkable that Paul Tudor Jones' monospaced letter is perfectly flush on the left and right margins with apparently no

Does anyone else find it surprising and remarkable that Paul Tudor Jones' monospaced letter is perfectly flush on the left and right margins with apparently no hyphenation nor additional inserted spaces within the lines? Surely this did not happen by coincidence (?).

pm215 9y ago
Looking closely, it doesn't actually seem to be monospaced. For instance in the last-but-two line the "t" in "we project" is pretty much midway between the two letters of "it" in the line below it. The text has been justified I think both by increases in inter-word spacing and by putting slightly more space between letters as necessary.
- 35bge57dtjku 9y ago
  Does that mean there's a 1/4 space button on his typewriter that he started using towards the end of the line?
netsharc 9y ago
Presumably done by an electronic typewriter? AFAIK they would buffer a line (or more?) of whatever you're writing, and when you hit enter, everything will be printed/punched out. I'm guessing it has a setting to justify, and it does that by adjusting the gaps between letters.
- justin66 9y ago
  Indeed. With a font that's monospaced (or close) that kind of justification isn't hard. I had a typewriter that could do that. (I don't remember how it handled hyphenation) Those typewriters were an odd generation, technology between PCs and the older but more expensive IBM Selectric typewriters. I cannot remember if mine was called a "word processor" (I don't think so) but it certainly had a little 8-bit computer in there.
bgun 9y ago
Definitely not monospaced. These four words are all 5 letters but different lengths. https://i.imgur.com/Iq6cVhl.png https://i.imgur.com/Iq6cVhl.png
saltcured 9y ago
I assume you are surprised because it's the 80s? I was typing up right and left justified essays for school using Wordstar on my CP/M machine in the early 80s and printing them out on a daisy-wheel printer. I could choose a monospace or proportional font or different font size by loading a different font wheel. I am sure Wall Street players had access to fancier tech.
chiph 9y ago
It's proportionally spaced. This was an option on early word processors and daisy-wheel printers.

pm215 9y ago

Looking closely, it doesn't actually seem to be monospaced. For instance in the last-but-two line the "t" in "we project" is pretty much midway between the two letters of "it" in the line below it. The text has been justified I think both by increases in inter-word spacing and by putting slightly more space between letters as necessary.

35bge57dtjku 9y ago
Does that mean there's a 1/4 space button on his typewriter that he started using towards the end of the line?

netsharc 9y ago

Presumably done by an electronic typewriter? AFAIK they would buffer a line (or more?) of whatever you're writing, and when you hit enter, everything will be printed/punched out. I'm guessing it has a setting to justify, and it does that by adjusting the gaps between letters.

justin66 9y ago
Indeed. With a font that's monospaced (or close) that kind of justification isn't hard. I had a typewriter that could do that. (I don't remember how it handled hyphenation) Those typewriters were an odd generation, technology between PCs and the older but more expensive IBM Selectric typewriters. I cannot remember if mine was called a "word processor" (I don't think so) but it certainly had a little 8-bit computer in there.

bgun 9y ago

Definitely not monospaced. These four words are all 5 letters but different lengths. https://i.imgur.com/Iq6cVhl.png https://i.imgur.com/Iq6cVhl.png

saltcured 9y ago

I assume you are surprised because it's the 80s? I was typing up right and left justified essays for school using Wordstar on my CP/M machine in the early 80s and printing them out on a daisy-wheel printer. I could choose a monospace or proportional font or different font size by loading a different font wheel. I am sure Wall Street players had access to fancier tech.

chiph 9y ago

It's proportionally spaced. This was an option on early word processors and daisy-wheel printers.