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From: bohus@math.rutgers.edu (Geza Bohus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Questions about MS Word 4.0
Summary: thanks and more info
Message-ID: <Sep.13.23.23.50.1990.2969@math.rutgers.edu>
Date: 14 Sep 90 03:23:50 GMT
References: <Sep.12.23.23.33.1990.24231@math.rutgers.edu>
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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In article <Sep.12.23.23.33.1990.24231@math.rutgers.edu>, bohus@math.rutgers.edu (Geza Bohus) writes:
> 
> He has to use 11pt Times-Roman with a 12pt distance between the lines.
> This is giving him problems, namely, the justified test is slightly
> rugged on the right side when printed. Not much, but clearly visible.
> We suspect that the reason is the absence of the the 11pt Times screen
> font but we are not sure.  (Everything works fine with 10 and 12pt
> Times.) Actually he also has some stuff written with Symbol, but it
> doesn't seem to matter - there are many pages with Times only which 
> exhibit the problem.)
...
> 1. Does 11pt Times exist for the screen, and if so, where can we get
> it?
> 
> 2. Why does this happen at all?  Shouldn't Word be able to figure out
> the width for any size if the font on the machine? I don't know how
> the font info is kept, but I assume that the font metric file (or
> whatever it is) should be there if the font is there in any size, in
> which case it should be plain arithmetic to figure out the widths.
...
> bohus@math.rutgers.edu

Thanks to all who answered. Unfortunately, we have tried fractional
width and the Adobe Type Manager (and combinations of the two) to no
avail. (I should have mentioned this in the first posting, my mistake.)

On the other hand, we found one thing which seems relevant (though it
shouldn't be), and that is that if we take out all hyphens, (including
those which got in the text at some point, but became unnecessary
afterward) then the whole thing changes, even in paragraphs where
there are no visible hyphens. This is really puzzling.

Anyway, it doesn't look much better without the hyphens, just
different. (Of course, where "real" hyphens are missing, it looks
worse.)

So, this is the situation right now and we're waiting for Microsoft to
say something. All ideas are still welcome and appreciated, yours
truly

gb

bohus@math.rutgers.edu