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From: slj@mtung.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Word 3.0 Bug Query
Message-ID: <907@mtung.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 30-Mar-87 07:51:06 EST
Article-I.D.: mtung.907
Posted: Mon Mar 30 07:51:06 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 31-Mar-87 06:47:32 EST
References: <2121@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> <4408@utah-cs.UUCP> <536@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Reply-To: slj@mtung.UUCP (S. Luke Jones)
Organization: AT&T ISL Middletown NJ USA
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In article <536@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> beloin@batcomputer.UUCP (Ron Beloin) writes:
>If MS Word drove you crazy with the uneven line spacing imposed 
>by super/subscripts, don't leave the funny farm yet. I just wish 
>Word would stop thinking it's smarter than I am. 
>Ron Beloin

I upgraded to 3.0 back in January because of Bill's High-Pressure "Do it
Now or Else" threat (which turned out to be bogus).  That is, I sent the
money back in January.  I got the product in mid-March.  Anyhow, it's
sitting on a shelf now because I'm one of those single-drive people you
weren't sure still existed.  (I have 64K ROM, too :-)  Word 3.0 purports
to require multiple drives (or, presumably, a single hard disk) and I
know very well that 1.05 just barely worked with a single drive, so I've
put 3.0 on the shelf to wait until I decide what upgrade (Plus or SE)
to get.

I visited my local authorized dealer to drool over the SE and played a
bit with 3.0 and was, to put it mildly, disturbed to see that if you
do 
    random text <propeller-shift-i> italicized text
    <prop-shift-space> more random text
the damned thing STILL doesn't put any space between the last character
of italics and the first character of roman text.  Is it just me or
does anyone else think they need to fix that?  I have to double space
after an italic word because it looks like crap if I don't.  And if I
try to do something cute like italicize the first syllable of a word,
then I have to put a space after it and it gets wordwrapped and @#$^&*%!

(On the up-side, I *was* slightly molified to see that the entire line
didn't spaz when you typed a character when there was funky text - e.g.
italics and/or su{per|b}scripts on the same line.)