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Re: Word 4.0 superscript/linespacing question

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From: Gary Davis
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1989 15:13
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From article <1545@adobe.UUCP>, by gelphman@adobe.COM (David Gelphman):
> In article <1989Dec20.235450.13036@isis.educ.lon.ac.uk> tejtemw@isis.educ.lon.ac.uk (EARL WILLIAMS) writes:
>>I am trying to use superscripts in single-spaced text while maintaining
>>even vertical line-spacing.  Since characters have a certain height,
>>superscripting them causes Word to believe that the whole line is taller;
>>it therefore puts more vertical whitespace between that line and the one
>>before it than there is between lines of regular single-spaced text.
>>Earl M. Williams            ?8^)    "No matter where you go, there you are."
>    This drives me nuts in all the word processors. Unfortunately none of
> the Mac programs I'm familar with handle this properly when the 
> 'automatic' leading is selected.
> David Gelphman
> Adobe Systems Incorporated

Nisus handles this properly, even with a second level of super- or
subscripting.

Gary Davis
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