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From: todd@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Todd Ogasawara)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Word Wrapping in WFW
Message-ID: <8023@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>
Date: 2 Jun 90 09:18:34 GMT
References: <292600008@trsvax>
Reply-To: todd@uhccux.UUCP (Todd Ogasawara)
Organization: University of Hawaii
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In article <292600008@trsvax> reyn@trsvax.UUCP writes:
>With both the WFW demo and the Microsoft Write which comes with Windows 3.0
>the text that is displayed on the screen is, to put it mildly, attrocious
>to read.  Let me interject that I have tried various combinations of font

Yes, WfW is nearly unreadable in WYSIWYG mode... It took me a long while
before I got "used to" working with the on-screen Times-Roman font (used
to represent most serifed proportional fonts: Bookman, Palantino, New
Century Schoolbook).

>The WFW demo doesn't mention this behaivior ( other than to say that
>Windows will use the most similar font ) and the manual for Write shows
>illustrations which correspond correctly between the ruler and the display.

There are a lot of "dumb" WfW "features." One of my biggest grumps is the
way hyphenation works. I noticed that it only hyphenates correctly if the
you are in the Page display mode. Hyphenation occurs at inappropriate
locations otherwise (words that are not at the end of lines).

I was also upset to find that text flows over the right side of the screen
no matter which mode I am in if I set the left and right margins to 1 inch.
I found I have to leave the left/right margins at 1.25 inches if I want to
avoid horizontal scrolling.

Here's another upsetting feature... My PostScript printer (an IBM
PagePrinter II-031) has 47 fonts. Although Windows Paint (I am still using
2.11, my 3.0 upgrade has not arrived yet) can support those fonts, WfW can
only support those fonts defined in PSCRIPT.DRV. So, I can't use Garamond
and a number of other useful fonts on my printer from WfW (or Word 5.0 for
that matter).

I like WfW but find its many limitations and odd design choices irritating
to no end. And, I still want to know why I can't shade a box/paragraph when
it was so easy to do in Word 5.0.... todd
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Todd Ogasawara, U. of Hawaii
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