Yeah, I sort of thought of that, but Word doesn't do that. I thought it
more likely that they were there but kerned down to nothing, but pasted the
text into a flat-file editor and they aren't there. Very odd. If he'd used
something other than Word I might have thought it was EOL getting eaten,
but Word doesn't do that, either!

On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 3:37 PM Bob Bridges <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm guessing, then, that the Word document uses a proportional font and
> the cut-and-paste function in Word is doing some weird calculation about
> the width of the proportional spaces and dropping them if the output is
> plain text.  Doesn't sound very likely, except I'm grasping at straws for
> an explanation of the result.
>

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