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<blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 5935999" data-attributes="member: 32740"><p>Yep, looks that way to me. Struck me immediately that the font was quite close to the original but actually clearer, easier to read. I've OCR'd the 1E core books myself - strictly for my own uses - and it was a tedious process simply because OCR software has such a difficult time distinguishing certain letters in the original font. a, e, and o were repeatedly mixed up as were the l, I, and 1, and so forth. So I got very familiar with the original font and could easily see how there just wasn't enough legible distinction between many letters in it.</p><p></p><p>Of course, if you change the font you automatically alter spacing between many letters which affects how many of the same words in a different font will fit on a line which means they MUST have reset the entire books.</p><p></p><p>I've got one early printing of the DMG and one that is a later revised printing but this sample section doesn't show any difference between the original printings, but neither <em>precisely</em> matches the sample either. It's only off by a half-sentence or so at the bottom of each page.</p><p></p><p>COULD being the operative word there... I'm not holding MY breath in anticipation of that.</p><p></p><p>They'd be pretty foolish not to, especially since some of those errors can be quite key - (e.g. monks attack as clerics, not thieves is one that leaps to mind from the PH).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Man in the Funny Hat, post: 5935999, member: 32740"] Yep, looks that way to me. Struck me immediately that the font was quite close to the original but actually clearer, easier to read. I've OCR'd the 1E core books myself - strictly for my own uses - and it was a tedious process simply because OCR software has such a difficult time distinguishing certain letters in the original font. a, e, and o were repeatedly mixed up as were the l, I, and 1, and so forth. So I got very familiar with the original font and could easily see how there just wasn't enough legible distinction between many letters in it. Of course, if you change the font you automatically alter spacing between many letters which affects how many of the same words in a different font will fit on a line which means they MUST have reset the entire books. I've got one early printing of the DMG and one that is a later revised printing but this sample section doesn't show any difference between the original printings, but neither [I]precisely[/I] matches the sample either. It's only off by a half-sentence or so at the bottom of each page. COULD being the operative word there... I'm not holding MY breath in anticipation of that. They'd be pretty foolish not to, especially since some of those errors can be quite key - (e.g. monks attack as clerics, not thieves is one that leaps to mind from the PH). [/QUOTE]
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