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From: jjung@nunki.usc.edu (John Jung)
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Subject: Re: 80 columns on Atariwriter plus?
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Date: 18 Dec 89 16:46:21 GMT
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In article <8727.2587d46b@ecs.umass.edu> sandberg@ecs.umass.edu writes:
>I have to line things up in columns on Atariwriter plus. I was thinking that
>if the screen was displayed in 80 columns it would make this a whole lot
>easier.
>Does anyone know a simple way of doing this?

  I don't think there's an "easy" way of doing it, just a way of getting around
a 40 column display. The only way I can suggest you to line up everything with
an 80 column printer is to use underlines instead of spaces in the area you
wanted to line up. Then, use print preview and make sure everything lines up
right. Once everything's the way you like it, do a global search for underlines
and replace them with spaces. Everything should be _printed_ all lined up
right, but when you look at the file in AtariWriter, it'll look a little messy.

(At least this is how I always did it whenever I wanted things to line
up with AtariWriter.)

  (Didn't I hear of an 80 column AtariWriter that works with the XEP-80?)

						John