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From: mdf@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Mark D. Freeman)
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Subject: Re: WordPerfect and Apple LaserWriter
Message-ID: <70@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Sun, 13-Sep-87 21:40:55 EDT
Article-I.D.: tut.70
Posted: Sun Sep 13 21:40:55 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 15-Sep-87 04:17:51 EDT
References: <334@silver.bacs.indiana.edu> <1987Sep11.105703.3982@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: mdf@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu.UUCP (Mark D. Freeman)
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In <1987Sep11.105703.3982@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> tj@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Terry Jones) writes:
>Now, if your printer allowed you to switch into a smaller font, try a
>paragraph in the smaller font and see what your margins and/or spacing do.
>With margins set in characters, if you change the character size, the margins
>change. I want to be able to set the margins in inches or picas or centimetres
>and have WordPerfect figure out the number of character positions it should
>use AND i want it to be able to use fractional characters. Otherwise if I mix
>a 13 pitch and an 8 pitch font on the same page, with integer character margins
>and a 1 inch margin, the margins CANNOT POSSIBLY EVER match due to the lack
>of an integer common denominator near 1 inch. 

So, buy Microsoft Word...

















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