NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #18/NN_1992_18.iso/spool/comp/os/mswindo/apps/2041

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Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!ariel!jcollier
From: [e-mail] (John Donald Collier)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: WP for Windows or Word?
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 18 Aug 92 13:12:32 GMT
References: <[e-mail]> <[e-mail]> <[e-mail]>
Organization: University of Melbourne, Australia
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In <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Charles H. Chapman) writes:

}WP4Win is not really WYSIWYG; it's more of a pseudo-WYSIWYG.  To demonstrate
}this select normal (non-draft) mode.  Select a proportionally spaced font
}like Times Roman.  On the first line of a document hit TAB and type some
}text.  On the second line of the document, SPACE over until the cursor
}is directly under the text in the first line and type the same text.
}If you Preview or Print the document, the text in the two lines will
}not be lined up at all, even though they appear to be lined up on the
}screen.  Thus, what you see is not always what you get in WP4Win.  There
}may be other situations like this too.

My father claims this is also true of MS-WORD for Windows. He sent
me a letter written on WFW that he says was aligned fine in the window,
but printed out ragged. He was using spaces rather than tabs. I told
him to replace the spaces with tabs, but he said it was too much work.

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John Collier             Email: [e-mail]
HPS -- U. of Melbourne              Fax:   61+3 344 7959
Parkville, Victoria, AUSTRALIA 3052