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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: KWord's strange linespacing
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2001-12-11 9:59:41
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On Tuesday 11 December 2001 10:57, Clarence Dang wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> It seems that KWord's linespacing is different to everyone else's (MS) 
> implementation of linespacing.  If you look at the attachment, which shows 
> KWord on the left and MSWrite on the right (running in Wine :), you can see 
> that Microsoft aligns their text to the bottom of the linespacing, while 
> KWord aligns it to the top.
> 
> This is a problem because this makes my filter (mswrite) not perfect!!! :) 
> i.e. in the attachment, both sides are supposed to look exactly the same 
> since they're from the same document (if the filter was perfect, of course).
> 
> So why does KWord align the text in "<LINESPACING>" different to MS?  Some 
> (other) MSWord/MS-whatever user will probably soon notice and complain if 
> this isn't changed... :)

Err, ok, it's different, but that doesn't tell us which one's right.
Can you test MSWord ? It might not even act like MSWrite.
What about other word-processors ? Thomas Z. ? ;)

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