Re: Dancing letters: feature or bug

["Rick Quatro" <frameexpert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Melanie,

Set your Line Spacing to Fixed.

Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing
716 659-8267
frameexpert@mindspring.com
FrameScript Information at http://www.mindspring.com/~frameexpert

> When I press alt + arrow up, the highlighted text doesn't really move up,
> the rest of the line moves down, leaving a gap between it and the line
> above.  I'd like it better if the highlighted text actually moved.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shlomo Perets [mailto:shlomo@microtype.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 1999 5:51 AM
> To: mheine@internorth.com
> Cc: framers@omsys.com
> Subject: Re: Dancing letters: feature or bug
>
>
> Mike,
>
> You wrote:
>
> >I happened upon a strange one. Can anyone replicate? -- Having
> >highlighted a few words in a  standard Body paragraph in a standard Flow
> >A in the standard text frame defined on the master page, I accidentally
> >(?ok, it was after midnight) held down the alt key and tapped one of the
> >arrow keys. Obviously, this is what you do when you nudge 'objects'  in
> >point increments. ...
>
> This is a feature... Alt arrows move selected text 1 point in 100%zoom
> (in 200% zoom, it would be 0.5 point and vice versa). Adding the
> Shift key, moves by 6 points in 100% zoom.
>
> To reset, select text and use Alt-Home, or apply 'Default Pgf Font'
> character tag.
> (see http://www.microtype.com/resources/fm5win.pdf for these and other
> shortcuts).
>
>
> >And I didn't even mention that Distiller or Exchange still insists
> >on rotating my Zapf-Dingbat bullets by 180 degrees...
>
> This is a bug... in Distiller 4.0 on NT.  Hopefully fixed in Distiller
4.05.
> In the meantime, distill with Distiller 3.02.
>
>
> Shlomo Perets
>
> MicroType * http://www.microtype.com
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>
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