>A Dutch newspaper mentioned this morning that the English Queen, during her
>current visit to Poland, did not mention some crucial sentences in a
>speech. Usually no major concern, but it was especially stated that the
>cause for this omission where 'typographical errors'. Does anyone know if
>this omission can be directly related to the typography of the text? In
>other words: is typography powerful enough to provoke such important
>omissions?
 
Perhaps the queen needs new glasses, or the court typographer should try
a bigger pointsize, increase the linespace and perhaps shorten line
length as well.
I wonder if such a queen would have a small field-printing and publishing
system, on her tours, for such occasions.. or maybe they went to a local
KinKo's and had it printed there and they only had CE encoded fonts, so
the whole speech got infested with strange characters.
 
erik
 
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Erik van Blokland
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