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From: jrk@information-systems.east-anglia.ac.uk (Richard Kennaway CMP RA)
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Subject: Re: Word 5 Wishes
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Date: 17 Jan 91 10:05:41 GMT
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In <2985@esquire.dpw.com> baumgart@esquire.dpw.com (Steve Baumgarten) writes:
>Yes, [Nisus] uses font names.  I can't imagine using Word, simply because
>it doesn't.  Almost guarantees nasty surprises if you print on a
>system other than the one on which the document was created.

You can work around this by saving documents in RTF format, which does
reference fonts by name.  I regularly use this method to exchange Word
docs by email with colleagues at another site, without problems, and I
know that some of our fonts have different indexes.  Well, almost without
problems.  We once had to use a non-standard route that happened to strip
trailing spaces from the ends of lines, which are significant to RTF.  One
could work around that by binhexing.

Yes, it's inconvenient, and Word should simply do it right, but in the
meantime, it's not fatal.

BTW, is Microsoft listening to all these suggestions, or are we just
having fun getting our frustrations with Word off our chest?

What I'd really like is a wysiwyg TeX- or SGML-based WP.  Anyone know of
such a thing?

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Richard Kennaway          SYS, University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K.
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