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From: gustwick@wf-aus.cactus.org (Bob Gustwick   )
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Word Wrapping in WFW
Message-ID: <PcN6J1w161w@wf-aus.cactus.org>
Date: 2 Jun 90 18:13:12 GMT
References: <292600008@trsvax>
Organization: W.F. Associates, Austin, Texas
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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
> style and sizes, but htey either are hard on the eyes, or much more
> disturbedly cause the screen to scroll rather than word-wrap at the right
> margin (as indicated by the ruler).  Contrast this to the extremely
> readable font which the notepad uses, and the result is a rather confused
> person ( me ) who is sure I must be missing something.
>
> 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.
>
> I dis find a "Draft" mode in WFW, but if that is the mode she'll have to
> stay in while composing, why do I need a GUI?
>
> As I stated earlier, I've probably missed something.  Help would be
> appreciated.
sigh.  no, you haven't missed a thing.  it is as bad as you think it is.
i'm running w/ a hercules card and a deskjet printer....  i called
microsoft asking how to solve the problem that some fonts scroll off the
right side of the screen.  solution?  get a new printer they said.
the offending screen fonts were hard coded into my printer driver they
said, and to fix the problem would require a new printer driver...
when i reminded them that i had the most recent deskjet driver that
microsoft destributes for hewlett packard, the responce seemed to be
'oh well, try to find a work around, like not using that font, or get
a new printer.'  times-roman seems to be the only font that gives me
usable WYSIWYG type screen layout in WFW...  i agree that the times-roman
screen font is not the most readable thing on the planet.   i can only
hope that the promised microsoft/apple royal font technology will show up soon
and solve all our problems.  in the meantime, i find it difficult to
go around trying 3rd party windows font stuff when it will all be
become obsolete within (hopefully) the next six months.

if you get too frustrated, go buy a mac.  macs work now, today.
if you bought an intel machine w/ windows 'cause it was cheaper,
then you have found out (as have i) why it is cheaper.  it doesn't
work as well.  i suspect that this will begin to change w/ the new
windows 3.0, but a decent windows font technology is still not
here yet.

but perhaps font problems are no problem at all.  perhaps my only problem
is the windows support people.  can anyone out there offer any insight?

...bob