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Article #12021Re: MS-Word Problems
From: charles s. geiger, esq.
Date: Thu, 03 May 1990 18:57
Date: Thu, 03 May 1990 18:57
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In article <126900198@p.cs.uiuc.edu>, gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes: > 1. I have used the Times and the New Century Schoolbook fonts, but I > always have problems with paragraph justification. If fractional > widths are turned off, there are no problems, but when fractional > widths are turned on ITALICS and subscripts always ruin the line they > are on. I use Adobe's screen fonts, and print on an imagen > ultrascript printer. This problem occurs in word 4.0 and 3.0. Yeah, I've had the same problems with sub- and superscripts, characters from the symbol font embedded in the text, optional hyphens at the end of a line, etc. (although I've never encountered any difficulty with italics). And I'm using Apples font. I called up Microsoft about this about a year ago, and they said it was a bug, and they knew about it. Great. Didn't the new version come out within the past year? Well, they still haven't fixed it, even on 4.00B (just checked). So you have a choice: integral widths and really sinfully ugly looking bold and/or italics, or fractional widths and uneven right margins with justification. Wonderful. Yet another reason to despise Microsoft. -- cheers, from charles s. geiger, esq. "Down with all kings but King Ludd" -- Byron
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!nedludd From: nedludd@ut-emx.UUCP (charles s. geiger, esq.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: MS-Word Problems Message-ID: <29425@ut-emx.UUCP> Date: 3 May 90 18:57:35 GMT References: <126900198@p.cs.uiuc.edu> Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas Lines: 27