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From: exspes@gdr.bath.ac.uk (P E Smee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: More Internationalization of Software
Message-ID: <1989Oct24.093042.9562@gdt.bath.ac.uk>
Date: 24 Oct 89 09:30:42 GMT
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Reply-To: exspes@gdr.bath.ac.uk (P E Smee)
Organization: University of Bristol c/o University of Bath
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One little thing I forgot to mention in my reply yesterday, in which I
explained the size of A4 tractor feed (80 col by 70 lines is near
enough).  If you are writing something where 'beautiful page
formatting' doesn't really matter, like say a compiler which produces
printable listing files, and you don't want to special-case A4 support,
there is still a little trick which makes life easier for users of A4
paper.

That is, simply, to end your page with a FormFeed character, rather
than counting lines and skipping to EOF using NewLines.  Sure, a
printer setup for A4 will then waste 4 lines per page, but at least
each page will really be on a page rather than slowly creeping across
the folds.  People writing docfiles which are intended to be printed
out by the user could well consider this idea as well.
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