Foxit Reader Typewriter

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Barton Ostby

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Aug 3, 2024, 4:19:20 PM8/3/24

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I'm giving my students an old exam and barely remembered to change the date at the top. A colleague and I joked about how long we could reuse the same exam, and it made me wonder if I could use LaTeX to create an exam that looked like it was written in 1963 on a typewriter.

Slight inconsistencies in the printing of each letter. I attempt this below adapting code taken from here. Each word has a random vertical shift, though I'd like to see it reduced to each letter having its own vertical shift. Other typewriter-like irregularities would be great.

Improved version with some Greek and mathematics, and avoiding small numbers being written using 2e-5 notation into the pdf (and crashing the pdf reader)This version assumes that the CM Unicode opentype fonts are available.