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From: phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: HP Deskjet Prop Fonts on WordPerfect?
Message-ID: <13045@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 25 Oct 89 16:07:48 GMT
References: <7263@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> <5160059@hplsla.HP.COM> <561@isi.UUCP>
Reply-To: phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti)
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In article <561@isi.UUCP# mark@isi.UUCP (Mark Bailey) writes:
#In article <5160059@hplsla.HP.COM>, tomb@hplsla.HP.COM (Tom Bruhns) writes:
#> RE:  Proportional Spacing in WP.  [...] Since the columns are separated by
#> tab characters, they should come out in nice straight vertical lines...)
#About a year ago, I had endless problems with WordPerfect and proportionally
#spaced fonts. [details]
#(I was doing a thesis and lines containing all caps came out with bad spacing,
#overlapping characters and no alignment).
#At the time they had no intention of fixing this :-(.
     My copy of the new WordPerfect arrived last night. I got it installed
and running and printed out a test version of next issue's editorial in two
justified, proportionally-spaced-font columns.
     It worked great. Cleanly aligned, proportionally spaced. I was so happy
to have gotten rid of that *&($!!! Courier 10 print wheel that I was bouncing
around the house all last night. :-)
     Caviet: I'm using a daisy-wheel printer, with the BoldPS Diablo printwheel.
Your mileage may vary by printer. Specifically, my system is:
     A500, 1 meg RAM, thin Agnus, two floppy drives, Tandy DWP-230 Daisy Wheel
printer IN IBM WHEELPRINTER emulation mode (Tandy mode acts buggy; IBM mode
doesn't. Veeedddy interestingk...) and newest version of WP (4.1.11?).
     Interestingly enough, 4.1.11(?) allows you to set an average characters-
per-inch value when in proportional mode. (I don't know whether earlier
versions of the software did this or not). Tinkering with that made a _big_
difference in how the output looked, although I didn't have problems with
alignment at any setting. I found an average pitch of 14 Proportional to
work best with my wheel...
                                                    - R'ykandar.
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