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)
Hi, I am posting the rest of my questions in comp.sys.mac.apps about MSW and 11pt Times, it seems more appropriate. gb bohus@math.rutgers.edu