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From: ormohrbh@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Richard Ohrbach)
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Subject: Re: NOVICE QUESTION ON WORDPERFECT 5.1
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Date: 10 Nov 90 14:48:48 GMT
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In article <90Nov10.081641est.6312@neat.cs.toronto.edu>, mgreen@cs.toronto.edu (Marc Green) writes...
>I've recently begun working with Wordperfect 5.1 but have run into a problem. The lines of test extend off the right end of the screen. I can't figure out how to fix this. It's not the margin settings. I'd appreciate help.
> 
>Marc Green Trent University

Fonts are presented on the screen page of WordPerfect according to their 
size when printed.  With 1" margins on both the right and left sides of the 
page, a 12 point font such as Times Roman will result in the text lines 
extending off the screen, whereas a fixed font such as Courier 10 (for the 
Hewlett Packard LaserJet) or most any Pica font will result in the text 
lines remaining within the 80 column width screen.  That is, Courier 10 
uses 10 characters per inch, and an 80 column monitor equals 8 inches; with 
1" margins on an 8.5" paper width, that means 6.5" of text space.  Since 
each character takes one column (on both screen and paper) it all fits on 
the screen.  However, with proportional fonts (such as Times Roman 12 
point) or with very small fixed fonts the space on screen required by each 
character is the same, but the space required on paper is less.  With 
larger fonts (such as Times Roman 24 point) the opposite problem occurs: 
the text line on screen may only extend half-way across the monitor, but on 
paper the text will extend to the margins.  Use View Document to visualize 
these differences.  

To check which font is set up for your printer as the default, press PRINT 
(Shift F7), then move the cursor to the appropriate printer driver and then 
press EDIT to see which font is selected as the default.  To change fonts 
within a document, press either FONT (Ctrl F8) or FORMAT (Shift F8, 
followed by DOCUMENT).

Hope this helps in your understanding of how WordPerfect handles fonts on 
screen.

Richard Ohrbach