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From: espen@math.uio.no (Espen J. Vestre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Bad spacing in TrueType fonts
Message-ID: <1991Jun13.084959.10437@ulrik.uio.no>
Date: 13 Jun 91 08:49:59 GMT
Sender: news@ulrik.uio.no (Mr News)
Organization: Department of Mathematics, Univ. of Oslo
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In article <1776@marlin.NOSC.MIL> aldrich@marlin.NOSC.MIL (Timothy M. 
Aldrich) writes:
> In article <17976@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> dave@PRC.Unisys.COM (David Lee 
Matuszek) writes:
> >I am having problems with word spacing being messed up when using
> >TrueType fonts.
> 
> Try turning on the Frational Widths option in the Word Page Setup option.
> This is a similar problem to the one I had when I first started using 
ATM.
> Hope this solves it for you.
> 
> - Tim ALdrich
>   (aldrich@nosc.mil)

The bad thing about that is that it looks really ugly on the screen.  And 
it may change your page breaks etc.  So it's best to leave fractional 
widths off until the last finish of your document, THEN you can turn it 
on, and then at the very last you can check your page breaks.

It would have been much easier if Word had been slightly less WYSIWIG, 
that is, if Word had used the fractional widths to compute the spacing 
(and thus the line- and page-breaks), but had still used "readability 
first" as the rule of thumb when displaying on a low-resolution screen.

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Espen J. Vestre                 
Department of Mathematics
University of Oslo
P.o. Box 1053 Blindern
N-0316 OSLO 3
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