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From: toma@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Right margin limitation in WordPerfect 5
Summary: Fake a Wide Form
Message-ID: <3913@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM>
Date: 9 Sep 88 16:00:14 GMT
References: <8839@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: toma@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
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Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <8839@cup.portal.com> David_J_Buerger@cup.portal.com writes:
>Nothing like progress.  I used to change WordPerfect 4.2's right margin
>to 240 for programming and the like [...]
>The right margin is a function of the paper size, which means
>no more unusually long lines are permitted.  Has anyone figured out a way
>to get around this?

Go to printer select, and edit your printer description: add a new form type
that is as wide as you need.  Better yet, add a dummy printer so you can
change printers to change paper size (much faster).

Perhaps the best thing to do, though, is use either a *real* program editor,
or, if you don't want to learn a new user interface, the PE editor in
WordPerfect Library.  WordPerfect (or indeed most "word processors") are just
plain too much of a hastle to use for program editing.

Tom Almy
toma@tekgvs.tek.com
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