I've flagged this so I can find it the next time I need to do some font
compression. Thanks for the pointer.
Bullets I found to be the hardest part of the learning curve in Oo. The
bullet/text spacing is handled differently from Word (but more rationally, I
think) but the pre-set bullet styles drove me nuts for awhile.
WordPerfect, BTW, has ceased to be a significant product and is almost never
encountered anymore, at least by me.
Jerry
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The bullets look uniform in Word. But something is causing Writer to
misinterpret the size for the first two. I hope to find time in the next
two days to go through the Word document in Word and see if I can
determine what might be causing this.
That there are more than one way to do bullets in both Word and Writer
doesn’t help. I suspect that the underlying structure between the two
sections of the column is not the same. Note, this is not an attempt to
excuse the incorrect translation into Writer, but to understand it.
What would be interesting to do would be to load this newsletter into
other products that claim to interpret MS Word formats and compare the
results. What does WordPerfect do, for example? Unfortunately I have no
access to such products.
I, on the other hand, did do a lot of desktop publishing in the past and
one thing I find missing in Oo that is in Word is kerning.
Kerning in Writer is found in the character formatting window available,
among other places, by clicking Format -> Character... -> Position. It is
called “Pair kerning” in Writer. I notice that your friend doesn’t bother
with kerning either.
I often want to tighten up a paragraph or character string and can't in
Oo (unless I haven't found out how).
There are lots of other spacing goodies in that same window. As in Word
you can modify word spacing or changed the proportions of characters to
make them wider or narrower in respect to their height.
Jim Allan
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