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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
Subject: Re: Dear Saint Andrew...
Message-ID: <3701@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 21 Jul 90 17:38:43 GMT
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>True, this may be a somewhat simplistic comparison - but considering how
>different a piece of text can look if it's in a 3 inch wide window frm
>how it looks in a 12 inch wide window - how would you support tabs
>consistantly in both??

I don't think this is an issue of the monitor size so much as it's an
issue of the philosophy of the underlying editor; if editors such as
Interleaf, Frame, etc. - which were all originally done for big-screen
workstations - support tabs, I suspect they support them more like other
word processing editors do.

I think most word processing editors do *not* set the margins based on
the size of the window; the "page width" is fixed, and if you widen the
window, it probably just leaves more white space.  Andrew is different,
in that the margins move if you change the width of the window.  I don't
think one can ascribe the philosophy of the other editors to the size of
the screen for which they were originally developed....