morgan@ooc.uva.nl (Chris Morgan/RIKS) (05/02/91)
Hi all, I'm currently doing battle with one of the UNIX buffs here who insists that he can produce higher quality output for his technical journal papers using his UNIX box and TROFF/NROFF etc,. than with my Macs. I have seen his output which is indeed of a high quality - credit where credit is due (#$@*&%#@$). He insists that he cannot produce output of similar quality on the Mac because - to use his words - there is no way to control accurate line, character paragraph spacing etc., and you cannot control accurately the thickness of the characters etc. Well, I have to agree with him where MS-Word is concerened. BUT I have recently 'discovered' the wonderes of PageMaker 4.0. With PagaMaker, it took me about an hour of trial and error before I could ACCURATELY reproduce his style of output - BUT I did it. My only problem now (and its too late for me to back out AND save face at this time) is reproducing all the mathematical and scientific characters which he requires. I know there are tricks to do this is MS-Word and I know there is the Symbol font set. BUT these 2 sources alone are simply not sufficient in supplying every type of technical sysmbol which my user needs. So to my question. What is the best method of reproducing these highly technical symbols and characters from within PageMaker 4.0 ? Is there a different fornt set other than symbol which which is much more extensive ??? Remember - its a Mac vs. UNIX issue that we are talking about here so please all you wonderful gurus out there in macLand - don't let me down, i'm counting on you all. Best regards - and may the best platform win, Chris Morgan. morgan@riks.nl