Because Apple introduced ligatures to OS 10.5.2 without warning. Microsoft
knew that some of the typography features were coming, but not all of them.
For something complex and low-level like this, you have to design an
application to handle them. That takes a year or so, by the time you have
completed coding and testing.
Reading the Apple documentation, Microsoft thought that these functions
would be "OFF" unless an application requested them. So they felt it would
be OK to go with partial support in this version and turn it on only when
needed.
When Apple shipped, they discovered to their horror that it's "ON" unless an
application turns it OFF.
Apple has screamed at Microsoft often enough for doing this sort of thing,
you would have thought they would have known not to do it themselves. Maybe
it's pure "pay back"
Either way: The next Service Pack should contain a patch to turn the damn
thing off until Microsoft completes their changes to enable it to work
properly.
Cheers
Indeed. Everyone getting this? If so, why are we still suffering with this
problem for months now? Thankfully, Apple's Pages program can open Word
documents and can actually print legibly.
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