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From: vg55611@ihuxy.ATT.COM (Gopal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Right margin limitation in WordPerfect 5
Message-ID: <2636@ihuxy.ATT.COM>
Date: 9 Sep 88 13:44:01 GMT
References: <8839@cup.portal.com>
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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 --- some lines just can't fit onto
>one screen.  In all their wisdom, WPCorp seems to have changed the rules
>with WP 5.0.  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?  If not, WPCorp has alienated a huge group of people.
>Time to switch to Sprint? :-)
>
>David Buerger
>dbuerger@scu.bitnet


Why not try to use a larger paper size, or, select a point size that is
small ?  The fonts and point sizes would be dependent on the printer you
select - so if your printer you selected supports only large point sizes,
choose another one (say for ex. one of the postscript printers).

I think it would have been difficult for WP to do something different 
in order to accomodate proportional fonts, which WP 5.0 does very well
and WP 4.2 is terrible at.

Venu P. Gopal
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