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From: a752@mindlink.UUCP (Bruce Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Word Wrapping in WFW
Message-ID: <1987@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jun 90 14:40:24 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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> todd@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu writes:
> 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.
> 


     The amount of text (in inches) that you can display in a left-right
direction depends strongly on the resolution of the display mode that you are
using.  When WFW is used in a standard VGA display mode, it is only able to
display approximately 6 inches of text.  This means that for a page which is
8.5 inches, you must use up at least 2.5 inches of the page in margins until
the line length becomes short enough to be fully displayed on the screen
(therefore your comment on left/right margins being 1.25 inches each).  If more
pixels however are available, more text can be displayed.  I am using an ATI
VGA Wonder card, which has both standard and two types of Super VGA (SVGA)
available.  Left-right display capabilities for these modes are:

Standard VGA     (640 x ?  )   - 6.2 inches
Super VGA        (800 x 600)   - 9.6 inches
Super VGA/8514   (1024 x 768)  - 10.2 inches

     I am not totally sure of the display capabilities of a Hercules card, but
I think that it is closer to that of the 800 x 600 SVGA mode than the standard
VGA mode.  In addition to getting more text right-left (to the extent that
allowing for margins, I can see an entire 8.5 x 11 inch page in *landscape*
format using the 1024 x 768 mode), I see more lines of text with the SVGA
modes.
     I am sold on the SVGA high resolutions modes.  Screen scrolling is
somewhat slower, but not impossibly so.  In draft mode, the characters are very
easily read, although some of the fonts are more difficult to read and I only
turn them on to preview a page.
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Bruce Dunn   Vancouver, Canada    a752@mindlink.UUCP