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From: finn@mojo.UUCP (Finn Markmanrud)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: WP 5.0 Printing problem solved - thanks everyone!
Message-ID: <197@mojo.UUCP>
Date: 30 Oct 89 19:11:26 GMT
Reply-To: finn@mojo.UUCP (Finn Markmanrud)
Organization: NEC Information Systems Inc., Boxborough, MA
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The problem with mis-alignment came from using a non-propotional font,
as amny of you pointed out. I switched back to courier 10 pt. and everything
was fine. I got quite a few suggestions on using tabs instead of spaces,
but find this very difficult. To understand what I mean, here's what I'm 
trying to do:

      xxxx  : xxxx xxxxxx xxxxx xx xx xxxxxx    
      yyy   : yyyyyyyy yy y yyyyyy yyyy yyyyyyy yyyyyy yyyyyy yyy
              yyy yyyyyyy yyyyyyy
      z     : zzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzz
      iiiii : iiiiiiii iiiiiiii iiiiiii ii iiiiiiii  iiiiii

The problem is to get the colons to line up, as well as the beginning of each
line. Since there are 3 spaces after "yyy", but 5 after "z,"  the colons don't
line up. One person (wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu) mentioned using "Shift-F8, D, 
D," to get to display pitch and see if it is set to automatic. It was, and
changing it didn't make any difference.  I felt like I was close to what I 
was trying to do there for a second! I would still like to be able to 
assign some fixed amount of space to each letter, but if this was possible
they wouldn't call it non-propotional font, I guess.  :-)  
Anyway, thanks to everyone who replied.

                         Finn.  
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