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From: mosemann@hoss.unl.edu (Russell Mosemann)
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Subject: Re: MS Word and the laser printer...
Message-ID: <1990Aug14.225654.17096@hoss.unl.edu>
Date: 14 Aug 90 22:56:54 GMT
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In <35942@ut-emx.UUCP> awessels@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) writes:

>In article <1990Aug14.164654.26727@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu (Pete Resnick) writes:

>>1) Use tabs and NEVER USE MULTIPLE HARD SPACES. This is probably
>>the worst culprit I see consulting Mac word processor users.
>>These will inevitably be reformatted since in a proportional font,
>>spaces can be different sizes.

>The rule I use is "never use a space when you can use a tab, and never use a
>tab when you can use an indent".  There are a few cases in which you may need
>to use a "fixed" or "hard" space (option-space on the keyboard).  For example,
>the other day someone wanted to creat a centered column of bulleted items.  A
>tab would not do since you would have to position the tab for each line based
>on where it was centered.   A couple of option-spaces worked quite well.
[Lots of stuff deleted]

   Perhaps the easiest thing for the students to do is to choose the
LaserWriter driver and then type in their paper.  When they choose the
ImageWriter driver to print out the draft, it will change and not look
right, but when they go back to the LaserWriter driver, it will
"look right" again.  The final copy will look like what they first typed in.

Russell
mosemann@hoss.unl.edu