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Article #8802Re: Word 4.0 don't like centimetres
From: Klaus Kansy
Date: Thu, 02 May 1991 10:31
Date: Thu, 02 May 1991 10:31
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In article <605@lysator.liu.se> zune@lysator.liu.se (Andreas Magnusson) writes: > Why doesn't Word like cm ? Is it quickdraw, or just because the US still > uses inches? This is an round-off problem when converting between internal and external measures. The problem can be solved and effectively had been solved by Microsoft in version Word 1.0 but the knowledge seems to have been lost since that time. So development sometimes goes into the wrong direction. Btw this is not the only example. MSWord 1.0 was the only WYSIWYG text system I am aware of which supported correct tabs (correct means: n-th tab goes to n-th tab-position; if this position has been passed, just introduce a blank). In Word 3.0, Microsoft adopted the widespread but idiotic current solution (tab goes to next available tab-position). Regards Klaus Kansy, kansy@gmdzi.gmd.de German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD) St. Augustin, Germany
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