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From: turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Why does Mac output not look as good as LaTex?
Summary: Looking for a few good fonts ...
Message-ID: <20081@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 20 May 91 22:01:10 GMT
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Organization: UTexas CS Dept, Austin, Texas
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I notice that my papers, produced with Word 4.0 and printed on a
good laserwriter, do not look as good as papers produced with LaTex
on Unix boxes.  Looking closer, what I discovered is that the
individual characters are fine, but that their spacing (under
Microsoft Word 4.0) leaves much to be desired.  Adjacent characters
often touch, reducing the legibility of expressions, especially 
when subscripts or superscripts are involved.  In this regard,
LaTex does a much better job.  (I mostly use the fonts Times and
Symbol; the individual characters look fine.)  

Does anyone have a good solution to this?  Are there better fonts
that cure the problem?  Microsoft Word says that one can adjust
inter-character spacing, but in fact, one can only insert a full
point of white space, which is far too much and screws up the 
proportionality of the spacing.  (One can set inter-character
spacing to .25, but it is rounded down to zero!)  Any advice -- 
posted or e-mailed -- will be appreciated.

Russell