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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
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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