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From: cgeiger@ut-ngp.UUCP (charles s. geiger, esq.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Bug in Word 3.01!
Message-ID: <5755@ut-ngp.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 30-Jul-87 16:48:31 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 30 16:48:31 1987
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Organization: UTexas Computation Center, Austin, Texas
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Keywords: Can you believe it?

I just got Word 3.01 today, and believe it or not, I already
have found a bug.  To wit:

Did anyone out there use optional hyphens with Word 1.05?
Well, if you didn't, there was a problem there:  on the laser
printer, optional hyphens were detached from the word they
were breaking up.  For example, at the end of the line would
appear
			any -
instead of
			any-

I am a stickler for cleaning up the right side of the page as
much as possible, so I manually hyphenate a lot.  I couldn't
do this on Word 1.05, because of the above problem.  But low
and behold, Word 3.0 fixed this.  Hyphens looked right, and
the program would even hyphenate for you.  Bliss.

But all is not well.  I opened a document typed on 3.0 using
3.01 today, printed it out, and the old 1.05 problem returned,
and with a vengeance!  Not only did optional hyphens separate
from their words, but normal hyphens did too.  In addition,
these separations weren't just one space, but were two or three
spaces!  Example:
			any   -
or
			any  -

Strangely, this doesn't appear in "Page Preview" mode.  Nor
(luckily) does this happen in new documents (typed on 3.01).
Also luckily, this can be fixed by global changes of all
hyphens to hyphens (- to -) and all optional hyphens to
optional hyphens (^- to ^-).  However, this is a pain in the
butt!  Will I now have to keep track of which document was
created with 3.0 and which with 3.01, so that I'll know which
ones I'll have to globally change?

GRRRRRRRR! from
charles s. geiger
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