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From: johnson@su-russell.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Getting Microsoft Word 3.0 to work
Message-ID: <291@su-russell.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 27-May-87 14:20:55 EDT
Article-I.D.: su-russe.291
Posted: Wed May 27 14:20:55 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 30-May-87 00:47:02 EDT
Reply-To: johnson@csli.stanford.edu (Mark Johnson)
Organization: Stanford University, CSLI
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Keywords: Microsoft Word 3.0
Summary: Tricks to get around footnote bug, overstrike bug in MS Word 3.0

....

Here are some tricks I've learnt while trying to get Word 3.0
to handle my thesis.  These are kind of hacky and the first is
quite uncomfortable, but at least you can get the job done.

If there are two footnotes on a page immediately before a page
that begins with with a large ``Keep Together'' style paragraph, 
the last footnote may disappear.  To get it back, manually insert a page
break BEFORE the large ``Keep Together'' style paragraph (you
will have to take it out if you change the page layout, of course).

The overstrike formula constructor \O(e1,e2,e3, ..), where e1, e2, e3
are the expressions to be overwritten, sometimes fails to line
up e1 with the other expressions.  To get around this bug, make
e1 a single blank space, e.g.  instead of \O(=,/) use \O( ,=,/) .

Finally, I have written a little Desk Accessory to do automatic
equation numbering and referencing in MS Word, using the PrintMerge
facility.  It works like this:

First, you copy your entire document into the clipboard, then you
start up the DA.  It looks for a TEXT type scrap, and looks for
all occurances of printmerge field references of the form <<eNAME>>
where NAME can be any alphanumeric string (without blanks).  It
returns a clipboard which contains a list of PrintMerge statements
of the form:

<<SET eNAME1 = 1
<<SET eNAME2 = 2
...

where eNAME1 is the first equation name it came accross, eNAME2
is the second, and so on.  You paste this into the top of your
document.

Its use relies on the fact that PrintMerge does not pay attention
to embedded blacks in field names.  So you can use field names with
embedded blanks in them for both forward and backward references to
an equation, as in the following example:


``	The main equation is (<<emain >>), but the tricky part is
	in the auxiliary definition (<<eaux2 >>).

		SOME COMPLICATED EQN			(<<emain>>)

		SOME MORE STUFF				(<<eaux1>>)

		AUXILARY DEFN				(<<eaux2>>)


	It is simple to see that (<<eaux1 >>) might be modified as ...''


This technique works quite well, and handles up to 128 equations per
document (there is a limit of 128 different fields, not 256 as in
the Word documentation).  The DA is about 5 mins programming...


Mark Johnson
Center for the Study of Language and Information
Stanford University