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From: abbo@tank.uchicago.edu (Laurie Abbott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Fractional probs in Word 4.0 (Was ATM (Adobe Type Manager) Problems
Summary: Problems Word 3.02 -> Word 4.0
Keywords: MSWord4.0
Message-ID: <5912@tank.uchicago.edu>
Date: 19 Oct 89 23:37:47 GMT
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Reply-To: abbo@tank.uchicago.edu (Laurie Abbott)
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A ms. that was begun as just a "clean copy" in MSWord 1.0 on an SE
ended up being camera-ready copy 2 years later in Word 4.0.  The bulk
of the ms. had to be hard-paged because there was English on one side
and Ottoman Turkish on the other, and the end-of-page for Turkish and
translation had to match exactly (435 pages).  

The big problem happened in the upgrade from Word 3.02 to Word 4.0;
somehow the pages (no appreciable editing) didn't come out the same
length.  Not every page was off, but maybe one out of 10 had a line or
two over.  What a nightmare.  The Turkish was in one set of files
(paged on even pages) and the English translation was in another set
(paged odd).  E.J.  Brill had given me *very* specific parameters for
page/text length.  There wasn't much leeway.

My only alternative, short of redoing the entire document in PageMaker
(money) or repaginating the whole thing in Word (time) was to attempt
to adjust the spacing between the words on those pages that bled over.
I condensed a(n unjustified) space to 1.5 pts, and then tried
replacing the spaces in a paragraph, sometimes several, with the
condensed space.  Rejustified.  The right margin was a mess.  Going
backwards, I discovered that even *one* condensed space in Word 4.0
totally screwed up the right justification.

What gives?  Why was there a difference in page length for the *same*
text (maybe a corrected spelling here and there, no actual text
changes) on the *same* SE from Word 3.02 to Word 4.0?  And why does
condensing text affect right justification?  On the same note, why
doesn't Word support the Apple Script Manager, so that those of us who
*want* a decent wp for non-Latin script aren't flumoxed by this same
fractional width problem?

The ms. is in the hands of the publisher now, but I'll *never* attempt
another project that size in MSWord.  I've been a Word user on Mac
since the first week after it was released, but just giving us tables
and macros *ain't* enough, guys.
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