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In a couple of earlier postings, I described how character spacing in
printed documents changes with each release of the Macintosh operating
system.  (Strange, but true.)

Yesterday I mentioned this problem to a friend of mine who, among other
things, writes printer drivers for the Mac.

He tells me that the problem is the fault of Microsoft Word, even though 
the symptom occurred when only the OS was changed (i.e. keeping the same
binary copy of Word).  He says Microsoft modifies fields in records which
affect the appearance of printed documents, even though the documentation
from Apple explicitly warns programmers not to touch these fields.  He says
most other editors, such as FullWrite, do not have these problems because
they play by the rules.

So it seems I owe Apple an apology.  Although I haven't confirmed it 
personally, it appears that the problem can be solved by switching to
another vendor of word processing software.

That might be necessary anyway, because it seems that Microsoft Word has
finally grown beyond the complexity which Microsoft can handle.  There
were nearly 50 external beta releases of Word 4.0 before it came out.