From koffice-devel  Mon Dec 17 08:08:51 2001
From: Thomas Zander <zander () planescape ! com>
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 08:08:51 +0000
To: koffice-devel
Subject: Re: MSWrite's strange linespacing (was KWord's strange linespacing)
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On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 08:39:06PM +1100, Clarence Dang wrote:
> Ok, I was wrong :)
> It's MSWrite that's doing the "strange linespacing" (hence, I've changed =
the
> subject line :)).
> As Nicolas Goutte pointed out, MSWord doesn't have this "strange
> linespacing", nor does AbiWord, nor KWord for that matter.
>=20
> I notice that MSWord's import filter for MSWrite maintains the linespacing
> by specifying "At least 18pt" instead of "1.5 lines", for instance.  I kn=
ow
> very little about DTP so that is quite meaningless to me :).
>=20
> So how do I fix my import filter?
>=20
> 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 sh=
ows
> > 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.

The difference is fundamental and can not be tricked around; in other words
you can not make a perfect import filter.

For first paragraph start you can adjust the size of the frame to start a=
=20
bit lower (something like 2pt for 10pt font) so the texts start at the same=
=20
position again :)

ps. don't add all those cc-s when people replied to a email from a mailing =
list;
it clearly shows they receive the mailing list!
--=20
Thomas Zander                                            zander@earthling.n=
et
The only thing worse than failure is the fear of trying something new

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