Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!van-bc!ubc-cs!sol.UVic.CA!sirius!hedstrom From: hedstrom@sirius.UVic.CA (Brad Hedstrom) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: I want an h-bar!!! Message-ID: Date: 11 Dec 90 10:38:47 GMT References: <1990Dec10.035502.11885@agate.berkeley.edu> <1990Dec10.174201.5648@ariel.unm.edu> <1990Dec10.221136.6559@agate.berkeley.edu> Sender: news@sol.UVic.CA Distribution: comp.sys.mac.apps Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada Lines: 35 In-Reply-To: gezelter@garnet.berkeley.edu's message of 10 Dec 90 22:11:36 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: pollux.uvic.ca In article <1990Dec10.221136.6559@agate.berkeley.edu> gezelter@garnet.berkeley.edu (Dan Gezelter) writes: The Belmont font used by MathType does have an h-bar. [stuff deleted] Also, as Jose Suarez(suarez@as.arizona.edu) pointed out, glueing h-bars from mathtype into the body of your text (single spaced) runs into a baseline overhang problem that makes the line spacing look atrocious. [stuff deleted] Erik O'Shaughnessy eoshough@nmsu.edu [stuff deleted] ========================================================================== This is the infamous MS Word ignore-the-baseline-info-in-the-clipboard bug which is further complicated by the "improvement" in Word 4 where PICTs are vertically enlarged when super/subscripted. I had numerous correspondences with Microsoft over a period of months and their final conclusion was that it was Design Science's (MathType) fault. It was of little consequence that Expressionalist also suffered the same problem and other word processors (e.g. WriteNow, Nisus) DID use the baseline information and worked fine with equation editors. Basically they said "We're so damn big, we don't give a shit!" Okay, it's not a quote but that was certainly how it ended. My final conclusion was to switch to Nisus. _____________________________________________________________________________ Brad Hedstrom, University of Victoria, ECE Dept. Internet: hedstrom@sirius.uvic.ca UUCP: ...!{uw-beaver,ubc-vision}!uvicctr!hedstrom