Posted by Joe Baker on March 23, 2001 at 12:34:23:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: 4/4 -vs- 4/4 -vs- 4/4 posted by I've noticed... on March 23, 2001 at 09:38:09:
There are two things that I can think of that would contribute to this. The first is the widespread use of optical character recognition. Take that catalog, scan it in, and run a convert. Of course, the OCR software has a heck of a time telling the difference between certain letters, and u/v is one of the worst. The second contributing factor is that, when the person does the OCR then runs a spell-check to catch OCR errors, 'value' is a legitimate word, so the spell checker doesn't flag it.
Of course, both of these functions can yield the same problems if a human is looking at the text.