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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: New Microsoft Word Question
Message-ID: <1834@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 21 Dec 87 18:17:28 GMT
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Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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> I recently got my Word 4.0 upgrade, and I found a number of subtly
> disturbing things in Word's drivers. I have an NEC CP6 printer, and
> have had to rework the driver Microsoft provides, due to the following
> set of annoyances:
> 
> 1. The underline function works by underlining in Epson mode graphics
>    -- at 120 dpi. The printer has a maximum resolution of 360dpi, but
>    more importantly, it has a built-in underline function that was
>    ignored.
> 

The Epson LQ series driver that comes with Word has the same method of doing
underlining -- but when I started fiddling with the PRD file to take advantage
of the built-in underlining mode, I began to see why Microsoft decided to do
underlining in graphics mode -- Epson underlining only works on printing 
characters.  If you try to underline blanks, you don't get underlining.  Now,
I think this looks a lot nicer than underlining that goes under everything,
but if you are trying to use underlining to draw a line across the bottom of
an invoice (not an uncommon use of underlining), it doesn't work.  You get
something like:

25 hours @ $40/hour		    $1000.00
-- ----- - --------                 --------
Total                               $9000.00

I've experimented a little with the underlining modes, and I still haven't
found a set of modes to set in the PRD file for the Epson LQ series that gives
me useful underlining and correct footnote dividers using the native underline
mode.  (Although it may be possible).

Clayton E. Cramer