Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari.oz.au!murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au!ditmela!diemen!tasis!ben From: ben@tasis.utas.oz.au@munnari.oz (Ben Lian) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Word 4.0 fractional widths still farcical (Grumble) Message-ID: <1083@diemen.cc.utas.oz> Date: 28 Oct 89 03:35:48 GMT References: <1082@diemen.cc.utas.oz> <35975@apple.Apple.COM> Sender: root@diemen.cc.utas.oz Distribution: comp Organization: Elec Eng & Comp Sci, Uni of Tasmania, Australia Lines: 29 In article <35975@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes: >Actually, from talking to people I know at Microsoft, that *have* a Desk >Accessory called "monkey" that will type in random keystrokes and mouse >movements. It is part of their testing procedure -- just fire it up and let >it whap away like a three-year-old would.... I could be gullible enough to believe this. It's so far-out that it could almost be true! Are you serious, Chuq? Confirmation would really make my day, and heaven knows how much I need cheering up right now. >>Moral: Don't use MS Word for technical writing. Try TeX/LaTeX instead >>(because it's brilliant, and usually almost free). > >Or use MS Word for your writing, and if the layout is important, use a >layout program of some sort. That's why they exist... Yes, I agree. Horses for courses. BUT when I specify full justification, I expect AT LEAST reasonably flush right margins. For the example I gave previously (many font changes within a paragraph), MS Word doesn't even come close. Come to think of it, even for plain prose, the right margin isn't all that flush either...but I'm being picky now. Chuq is quite right. Word is NOT a typesetting program. Ben Lian Dept of EE & CS, Uni of Tasmania, GPO Box 252C, Hobart TAS 7001, Australia UUCP: ...!{uunet,ukc,mcvax,hplabs,nttlab}!munnari!tasis.utas.oz!ben ACSnet: ben@tasis.utas.oz Ph: 002-202380 Fax: 002-202713