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   From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   In article <5b6eb66a57charles@candehope.me.uk>,   
   charles   wrote:   
   >In article , Lawrence D'Oliveiro   
   > wrote:   
   >> On Mon, 10 Jun 2024 15:36:42 +1000, Peter Moylan wrote:   
   >   
   >> > Years ago I submitted a research paper to a conference that had   
   >> > suddenly adopted a rule that all submissions must be in MS-Word format.   
   >> > What the conference organisers didn't realise was that the number of   
   >> > lines per page depended on non-portable local conditions. (I think it   
   >> > depended on which printer was installed.) Submissions were limited to 4   
   >> > pages. When the conference proceedings were published, about half the   
   >> > papers turned out to have a length of 4 pages plus 2 lines.   
   >   
   >> Long-standing problem with Microsoft Office. Office diehards often   
   >> complain that LibreOffice isn‘t ”100%-compatible• because when they try   
   >> moving documents between the two, the layout changes in some unexpected   
   >> way. What they don‘t realize is that the Microsoft product isn‘t   
   >> consistent with itself, and is quite capable of screwing up layouts on   
   >> its own.   
   >   
   >Indeed so, been there, bought the T-Shirt   
      
   With conference papers the issue is most often A4 vs. American Letter paper   
   sizes.   Word handles this particularly badly.   
   --scott   
      
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