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From: rfutscher@pbs.org
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Unequal line spacing in WfW
Message-ID: <1991Apr8.230054.12282@pbs.org>
Date: 9 Apr 91 03:00:54 GMT
References: <69220015@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com>
Organization: PBS:Public Broadcasting Service, Alexandria, VA
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In article <69220015@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com>, knotts@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com (Tom Knotts) writes:
> 
> I am editing a file with single-spaced lines with equations and symbols.
> The line spacing is varying all over the place. For example, I have one
> sentence which contains the symbol "delta". This "D" is no larger than
> the CenturySchoolbook characters in the rest of the line (yes, I'm using
> PostScript). But WfW adds an additional ~30% space between this line and
> the line above it. It seems to think that this symbol is large and
> requires extra space to prevent it from overlapping the line above.
> I will try fix it by switching line spacing from auto to fixed, but it
> seems to me that the auto-spacing feature should work better.
> 
> 
    I had a simular problem when I used dingbats in a document. My problems 
went away when I started to use Adobie Type Manager. Microsoft said that they
knew about the problem and it may be fixed in the next version (v2.0).

Robert Futscher     rfutscher@pbs.org