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  1. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!caen!hellgate.utah.edu!jaguar.cs.utah.edu!brian
  3. From: brian%jaguar.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Brian Sturgill)
  4. Subject: Re: Release dates ( was Re: superVGA (and misc top-blowing)
  5. Date: 19 Aug 92 01:37:50 MDT
  6. Message-ID: <1992Aug19.013750.27959@hellgate.utah.edu>
  7. Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
  8. References: <1992Aug12.140856.21609@hellgate.utah.edu> <77766@ut-emx.uucp> <1992Aug15.235739.10958@hellgate.utah.edu> <1992Aug17.040320.21532@msc.cornell.edu> <1992Aug16.223922.4834@hellgate.utah.edu> <1992Aug18.072226.11476@msc.cornell.edu>
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  11. In article <1992Aug18.072226.11476@msc.cornell.edu> maynard@esther.msc.cornell.edu (Maynard J. Handley) writes:
  12. ...
  13. >
  14. >Alright, a simple test. Suppose you include the example I gave, _italic
  15. >text_ then roman. Will this latest version of winword know about italic
  16. >correction so that the italic doesn't bump into the roman? Will it vary the
  17. >italic correction
  18. >depending on the italic text?
  19. No, but then neither does TeX, in both cases you specify that the correction
  20. should be done. In Word it done using the Kerning features, in TeX
  21. you put a \/ after the word that needs the italic correction.
  22. In Word, you decide the size of the italic correction; in TeX, Donald Knuth
  23. dictates the size.
  24. >
  25. >Maynard Handley
  26.  
  27. Brian
  28.