bohus@math.rutgers.edu (Geza Bohus) (09/13/90)
Hi, This is for a friend who is translating a book using MS Word 4.0. He gives a typeset copy on film to the publisher who is going to get it printed from this copy. Also, the book is going to appear in a series with strict restrictions on format (type-size, no. of lines on a page etc.) He has to use 11pt Times-Roman with a 12pt distance between the lines. This is giving him problems, namely, the justified test is slightly rugged on the right side when printed. Not much, but clearly visible. We suspect that the reason is the absence of the the 11pt Times screen font but we are not sure. (Everything works fine with 10 and 12pt Times.) Actually he also has some stuff written with Symbol, but it doesn't seem to matter - there are many pages with Times only which exhibit the problem.) So here are the questions: 1. Does 11pt Times exist for the screen, and if so, where can we get it? 2. Why does this happen at all? Shouldn't Word be able to figure out the width for any size if the font on the machine? I don't know how the font info is kept, but I assume that the font metric file (or whatever it is) should be there if the font is there in any size, in which case it should be plain arithmetic to figure out the widths. BTW, he called Microsoft, but they couldn't reproduce the problem. He is sending them a file on diskette, but this may take a while. Please email your answers to me. Thanks in advance for any help. gb bohus@math.rutgers.edu
bohus@math.rutgers.edu (Geza Bohus) (09/14/90)
In article <Sep.12.23.23.33.1990.24231@math.rutgers.edu>, bohus@math.rutgers.edu (Geza Bohus) writes: > > He has to use 11pt Times-Roman with a 12pt distance between the lines. > This is giving him problems, namely, the justified test is slightly > rugged on the right side when printed. Not much, but clearly visible. > We suspect that the reason is the absence of the the 11pt Times screen > font but we are not sure. (Everything works fine with 10 and 12pt > Times.) Actually he also has some stuff written with Symbol, but it > doesn't seem to matter - there are many pages with Times only which > exhibit the problem.) ... > 1. Does 11pt Times exist for the screen, and if so, where can we get > it? > > 2. Why does this happen at all? Shouldn't Word be able to figure out > the width for any size if the font on the machine? I don't know how > the font info is kept, but I assume that the font metric file (or > whatever it is) should be there if the font is there in any size, in > which case it should be plain arithmetic to figure out the widths. ... > bohus@math.rutgers.edu Thanks to all who answered. Unfortunately, we have tried fractional width and the Adobe Type Manager (and combinations of the two) to no avail. (I should have mentioned this in the first posting, my mistake.) On the other hand, we found one thing which seems relevant (though it shouldn't be), and that is that if we take out all hyphens, (including those which got in the text at some point, but became unnecessary afterward) then the whole thing changes, even in paragraphs where there are no visible hyphens. This is really puzzling. Anyway, it doesn't look much better without the hyphens, just different. (Of course, where "real" hyphens are missing, it looks worse.) So, this is the situation right now and we're waiting for Microsoft to say something. All ideas are still welcome and appreciated, yours truly gb bohus@math.rutgers.edu