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From: les@chinet.UUCP (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Right margin limitation in WordPerfect 5
Message-ID: <6566@chinet.UUCP>
Date: 11 Sep 88 20:05:33 GMT
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In article <7073@well.UUCP> casey@well.UUCP (Kathleen Creighton) writes:
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>>I think it would have been difficult for WP to do something different . . .
>
>Rather than go through this silly "Forms" nonsense for 240 columns, it 
>would have made more sense to allow "line length" as a selection.  As it
>is, you can only change the "line length" via left and right margins or
>via Forms.

No, WP got this one right in 5.0.  If you think in terms of characters
per line then you have to go through all kinds of contortions if you
decide to change font sizes, not to mention using proportional fonts.
A word processor should work in terms of measurements and do the math
for you to fill the space between the margins with an appropriate amount
of text.  It would be nice if it had a simple -program mode- switch to
prevent it from doing any word wrap at all, but you should be able to
get the same effect by picking a printer with a sufficiently small font
or a wide form.

Les Mikesell