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morgan@ooc.uva.nl (Chris Morgan/RIKS) writes:

>I'm currently doing battle with one of the UNIX buffs here who insists
>that he can produce higher quality output for his technical journal
>papers using his UNIX box and TROFF/NROFF etc,. than with my Macs.

>I have seen his output which is indeed of a high quality - credit
>where credit is due (#$@*&%#@$). He insists that he cannot produce
>output of similar quality on the Mac because - to use his words - there
>is no way to control accurate line, character paragraph spacing etc., and
>you cannot control accurately the thickness of the characters etc. Well,
>I have to agree with him where MS-Word is concerened. BUT I have recently
>'discovered' the wonderes of PageMaker 4.0. With PagaMaker, it took me about
>an hour of trial and error before I could ACCURATELY reproduce his style
>of output - BUT I did it.

There is a solution to the funky (uneven) line spacing that one gets
when mixing, say, Times and Symbol fonts in MS Word, or by having
subscripts and superscripts.

The solution is to select "-12" for line spacing in the Paragraph
dialog box (Format menu) instead of "Auto" (if you are working in 12
pt. font size and want single spacing.)  Any negative number forces
even spacing of lines to that width.  This is documented in the manual
under "Line Spacing".

Lydia Gregoret
gregoret@cgl.ucsf.edu