howell@unc.UUCP (William Howell) (06/17/85)
Problem with Microsoft Word (Version 1.1 and 1.15). Right Justification Sloppy. Microsoft Word appears to be limited in its ability to right justify. It can only microspace between words and is not capable of microspacing between letters. This naturally results in large gaps between words, unless you want to go to the trouble of hyphenating a lot of words! (I know that 2.0 has a hyphen program to make it easier - but I for one don't care for hyphenating as many words as you generally have to in order to smooth out the right edge.) Other, competitive programs, such as Wordstar can handle microspacing between letters, but don't have the power I need in other areas such as the ease of handling columns. I'd be interested in hearing from anyone who has a solution to the limitation in Word, such as does 2.0 solve the problem, or does use of proportional space print wheels solve the problem. Does Microsoft plan on fixing this or don't they see it as a limitation? Does WordStar 2000 handle the problem? Also, are there any word processing programs that can handle microspacing and column work? Please respond by mail as I do not read this group regularly. Thanks.
george@mnetor.UUCP (George Hart) (06/19/85)
> Problem with Microsoft Word (Version 1.1 and 1.15). > Right Justification Sloppy. .... > I'd be interested in hearing from anyone who has a > solution to the limitation in Word, such as does 2.0 solve > the problem, or does use of proportional space print wheels > solve the problem. Does Microsoft plan on fixing this or > don't they see it as a limitation? Does WordStar 2000 > handle the problem? ... > Please respond by mail as I do not read this group > regularly. Thanks. Please post a summary to the net. Here's another problem. With some printers, in particular Epsons, Word(1.15) seems to misalign the text on the page. The text seems to be placed too high and too far to the right. My page size is set to 8 by 11 for the Epson but I still have to tweak my margins to get it looking right. Anybody got any clues? -- Regards, George Hart, Computer X Canada Ltd. {cbosgd, decvax, harpo, ihnp4}!utcs!mnetor!george
bc@cyb-eng.UUCP (Bill Crews) (06/20/85)
> Microsoft Word appears to be limited in its ability > to right justify. It can only microspace between words > and is not capable of microspacing between letters. This is simply totally untrue. Microsoft Word can produce output that approaches full typeset quality! This includes microspace justification. I am guessing that your printer and font settings are the problem. If your printer is one of those supported by Word you should be set up. If not, Word supports the ability for you to design your own printer definition file, which should be all you would need, although the traditionally dense Microsoft documentation may not help you much toward this end. Good luck. -- / \ Bill Crews ( bc ) Cyb Systems, Inc \__/ Austin, Texas [ gatech | ihnp4 | nbires | seismo | ucb-vax ] ! ut-sally ! cyb-eng ! bc
lotto@talcott.UUCP (Jerry Lotto) (06/25/85)
> > Problem with Microsoft Word (Version 1.1 and 1.15). > > Right Justification Sloppy. > .... > Please post a summary to the net. > > Here's another problem... And yet another. Anyone use the Apple Laser writer postscript support with success? I can get the output from MSword to a terminal and it looks OK, But when the printer reads it, it seems to get a few commands and then wait indefinately. I never get any output. The initialization routine works just fine and I get fine results emulating a Diablo 630. -- ____________ Gerald Lotto - Harvard Chemistry Dept. UUCP: {genrad,cbosgd}!wjh12!h-sc4!harvard!lhasa!lotto {seismo,harpo,ihnp4,linus,allegra,ut-sally}!harvard!lhasa!lotto ARPA: lotto@harvard.ARPA CSNET: lotto%harvard@csnet-relay
bob@nbires.UUCP (Bob Bruck) (06/25/85)
> > Microsoft Word appears to be limited in its ability > > to right justify. It can only microspace between words > > and is not capable of microspacing between letters. > > This is simply totally untrue. Microsoft Word can produce output that > approaches full typeset quality! This includes microspace justification. Although I am an avid fan of Microsoft Word, and truly appreciate the flex- ibility of its Printer Description File, microspace justification only applies between words and NOT between characters. As far as approaching full typeset quality, if you really believe that you have not used a good modern typesetter! Bob Bruck (hao | allegra | ...)!nbires!bob