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From: akk2@ur-tut.UUCP (Atul Kacker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Flames on Microsoft
Message-ID: <408@ur-tut.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Nov-87 08:56:58 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  4 08:56:58 1987
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In article <505@aucs.UUCP> peter@aucs.UUCP (Peter Steele) writes:
>I don't normally openly flame a company, but this time I make an
>exception. 
>I've just spent an unreasonable amount of time in trying
>to find out why MS Word's serial driver insisted on using the
>proportional font Geneva as the on-screen font even though the
>serial printer being used is essentially a non-proportional device.
>The difficulty this caused was that when you lined something up on
>screen, it wouldn't be lined up when printed because the Geneva
>spaces are smaller than the printer's spaces (among other things).

I am surprised people try to line up things on screen using spaces.
Use tabs, that's what they are there for.

>Even if you select Monaco or Courier, it still uses Geneva on screen.
>That is, unless, you have the font Dover installed in your system

I guess it's time again for another round of RTFM.  Page 54 of the
MS Word manual in the section on FONTS, tells you just that.  It says
specifically that if you are using an impact printer as chosen in the
Chooser dialog box and if you want things to be WYSIWYG you should be
using the Dover font.

If I had a problem on FONTS where would I look in the manual, under
FONTS of course.

Take a few minutes to cool off before you go around flaming anyone.



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