chuq@plaid.UUCP (03/30/87)
I've discovered a number of new bugs in word 3.0, mostly involving headers and footers. Lots of rough edges out there. (1) I've gotten a ID=3 bomb a couple of times dealing with the special first footer. I don't know exactly why, yet, and I can't reproduce it exactly, but it invariably happens only when a first footer is active and I've been working with it. (2) Which is okay, I guess, because I've found that text put in the special first footer won't be printed. At least, I can't get it to print, even if the first footer is a duplicate of a normal footer. For fun, put some text in the first footer, set up a single line border above the paragraph, and watch the border line print without the text. neat! (3) setting a line height of less than the point size of the font doesnt' work. If, for instance, you have a blank line (just a paragraph marker) in 10 point type, and you set the height to be 3 points, it accepts it and gives you a 10 point line. If you want to do custom leading, you need to reset the point size as well. foo. Now, you might ask WHY anyone would want to do (3)? Because, if you start working with paragraph borders, you'll find they are basically useless as they are designed. Try putting some 10 point text with a double line above it, followed by another paragraph of text with a single line above it: ===== test ------ text Print this out on the laserwriter, and notice how cramped everything is -- the text is basically unreadable. Now, try to adjust the leading with the 'space before' and 'space after' variables. Now, give up in disgust, add blank lines around everything, attached the borders to those blank lines, and adjust the height of the blank lines to set up your leading. Whoever designed the borders must not have used them very much. There is no flexibility in them and they don't react well to the text or the environment around them. sigh...... However, I must say that it is fun being able to plug in PostScript wherever I want.... Now, if I can only find lots of interesting PostScript samples to play with.... chuq Chuq Von Rospach chuq@sun.COM [I don't read flames] There is no statute of limitations on stupidity