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From: gelphman@adobe.COM (David Gelphman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Word 4.0 superscript/linespacing question
Message-ID: <1545@adobe.UUCP>
Date: 21 Dec 89 08:08:22 GMT
References: <1989Dec20.235450.13036@isis.educ.lon.ac.uk>
Reply-To: gelphman@adobe.UUCP (David Gelphman)
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In article <1989Dec20.235450.13036@isis.educ.lon.ac.uk> tejtemw@isis.educ.lon.ac.uk (EARL WILLIAMS) writes:
>I am trying to use superscripts in single-spaced text while maintaining
>even vertical line-spacing.  Since characters have a certain height,
>superscripting them causes Word to believe that the whole line is taller;
>it therefore puts more vertical whitespace between that line and the one
>before it than there is between lines of regular single-spaced text.
>Earl M. Williams            ?8^)    "No matter where you go, there you are."
   This drives me nuts in all the word processors. Unfortunately none of
the Mac programs I'm familar with handle this properly when the 
'automatic' leading is selected.
   The solution with Word is to select the Paragraph Format menu item.
Under line spacing it should say AUTO. To set it to a uniform spacing
type in -Npt where 'N' is the amount of leading you want. The minus
sign is absolutely necessary. This works in Word 4.0, I don't know
about previous versions. I find this uncomfortable since any change
in font size means you have to go in and change this. It seems to do
the job however.
David Gelphman
Adobe Systems Incorporated