rajiv@ee.rochester.edu (Rajiv Arora) (06/27/90)
I'm sure a lot of you out there use Expressionist for math equations--I'm using
it extensively and for the most part, find it to be wonderful.
I have run into one problem however. Using v2.03, some equations when pasted
into WriteNow 2.2 cause "collisions" on the laser printed output. What I mean
is that parts of the equation overwrite each other, or the preceding or
following text in the WriteNow document. Following the ususal math typesetting
rules, the equations are italicized, so I use the Times Italic font
extensively. I have the Adobe Times fonts, which is what Prescience recommends
anyway.
After a little experimentation, I found that Expressionist was not handling the
italic font's width correctly. I have to constantly "tweak" the equations with
thin spaces and the like, and it's getting tiresome. Has anyone else had this
problem? Any suggestions?
A call to Prescience wasn't much help. According to them the problem would go
away if I stopped using fractional widths ("printer spacing" in WriteNow). I
was rather shocked to learn that Expressionist doesn't support fractional
widths. I was told to send for the latest version (v2.07), but it wasn't clear
they even understood my problem.
So once again I turn to this knowledge base. :-) Thanks in advance for any
help/advice.
Rajiv Arora
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Internet: rajiv@ee.rochester.edu jeffe@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (George J. Jefferson) (06/27/90)
>away if I stopped using fractional widths ("printer spacing" in WriteNow). I >was rather shocked to learn that Expressionist doesn't support fractional ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >widths. I was told to send for the latest version (v2.07), but it wasn't clear ^^^^^^ >they even understood my problem. Does Fractional Widths *do* anything besides screw up otherwise reasonably stable applications. (MSWord is another..) Seriously, fractioal widths causes character spacing to be a little different but I can never decide if text looks better with it on or off. (Maybe I dont have an eye for such things?) Can somebody provide a technical explanation of just what this option does? And why do so many (well at least two..) applications not support it? Did the fractional widths idea come along after these apps were written? To the original poser - Word gets particularly confused with sub/super scripts. If momory serves Times mixed with Times Italic works ok if you dont change sizes. George Jefferson jeffe@eniac.seas.upenn.edu george@sol1.lrsm.upenn.edu