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From: joec@Morgan.COM (Joe Collins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: wordperfect 5.0 and alignment
Message-ID: <475@ringwood.Morgan.COM>
Date: 30 Oct 89 16:48:40 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Morgan Stanley & Co. NY, NY
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Sorry...mail to you bounced so I hope you see it here.

To: finn@nec.mojo.com
In article <191@mojo.UUCP> you write:
>I am having the hardest time getting hard copies from WP 5.0 that look
>the way I want them. I think it has to do with alignment, but I can't 
>figure it out. The reveal codes tell me nothing, and the WP Corp. so
>called "Hot" line remains cold (busy). Maybe some of you "netters" can
>help me. The main problem is that the text looks nice and aligned on the
>screen, but the printout is completely mis-aligned. When I run the cursor
>to the beginning of each line, it shows different positions on the line
>(example: 2.46 and 3.23) even though they are straight under eachother on
>the screen. I tried to "cheat," and delete and add spaces, but it is not
>possible to hit the exact same value from line to line, since it jumps .08
>or something like that every keystroke.
>It seems as if the spaces and the actual letters take up different amounts
>of room on the line. Please tell me this is not true!
>If you think you can help, please E-mail or post as soon as possible - I'm
>going crazy, and I'm starting to miss Professional Write (Yes - it's getting
>serious folks!). 
I have the same problem. Couple of pointers for you:
1-Don't use soft spaces unless absolutely necessary.
2-Try using the right align function for better alignment
3-yes, the spaces/letters take different amounts of room, known
  as proportional spacing
4-When you say seeing it on the screen, I assume you mean view document
  mode as opposed to editing the document.

We were going OUT OF OUR MINDS as well until we discovered right align.
Also- WP 5.0 is very printer sensitive.
      We started with POSTSCRIPT on our NEC LC890 but gave up TOOOOOOOO SSSLLLOOOWWW.
      Switched to laserjet mode (after converting documents!) and now 10-20x faster.
      BEWARE OF POSTSCRIPT mode.

let me know if I answered your question.
joec@morgan.com