Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ysub!psuvm!cunyvm!byuvm!asuacad!icbal Organization: Arizona State University Date: Thursday, 30 May 1991 05:40:41 MST From: Message-ID: <91150.054041ICBAL@ASUACAD.BITNET> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Inline equations in MS Word 4.0 References: <1991May28.173933.25927@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <1991May29.152619.14328@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <5473@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> <43883@netnews.upenn.edu> :The problems with Word goes even further that it's refusal to use baseline :info... even when you ADJUST the baseline (using subscript) Word STILL :mucks the works for you because all it does is make the graphic "frame" lower :and descends the eqt. there. Since the "frame" is still as tall as it was, it :screws up line spacing even though what's in the upper region of the frame :is empty >this particular problem is remedied by simply specifying >a _negative_ line spacing. Except that large equations will overlap the lines above and below when using "negative" line spacing. The most practical solution we have found is simply to stick with Word 3.02, which does not have this problem. (There are a half-dozen other reasons why we find Word 3.02 superior to 4.0. I wrote a letter to Microsoft once, listing them all.) So far, there are ONLY two special cases where Word 4.0 is needed and used: (1) when Word 4's table feature is needed, (2) when making big-print documents for transparencies (it is easier to magnify the document in Word 4's Page Setup than to make the type bigger because that would involve resetting all of MathType's size preferences). Bruce Long Department of Mathematics Arizona State University icbal@asuvm.inre.asu.edu