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From: rm3@ornl.gov (MCBROOM R C)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Damn WordPerfect and HELP !!!
Message-ID: <1991Jun25.144932.13687@ornl.gov>
Date: 25 Jun 91 14:49:32 GMT
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Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab
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In article <55640001@hpcvra.cv.hp.com.> daveo@hpcvra.cv.hp.com. (Dave Ochs) writes:
>/ hpcvra.cv.hp.com:comp.sys.ibm.pc / s64421@zeus.usq.EDU.AU (house ron) /  7:30 am  Jun 11, 1991 /
>s902255@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (A. Vanderstock) writes:
>
>>My first document:  Let's have some bold 10 pt roman, some italic 10 pt
>>Helvetica, etc etc...  What happened?  All the fonts came out in different
>>sizes because idiot Word thinks points are a horizontal measurement!
>
>This is just plain wrong.  Points are exactly what you expect ... they refer
>to vertical size.  I don't know what YOU were doing, but it works fine for
>me and the rest of the world (possible a slight exageration).
>
Lets see,  Back in the days when I was in High School wnd worked in a 
antique printshop, It seems to me that when the point size changed both the
vertical and horizontal sizes changed.  How much depended on the font that
was being used.  Wordperfect provides the view option in the print menu screen
so that you can see what your page will look like before you send it to the 
printer.  the trade-offs between the ease and speed of using the text mode
for entry and what you see is what you "almost" get wiil be debated from 
now on.  The inevitable differences in resolution and media will continue to 
make getting the final product an iterative process.

Robert McBroom internet: rm3@ornl.gov