AALevy@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA (08/19/85)
Is there a quick way of doing double spacing on Wordstar without reformatting the whole file or using mailmerge. (or is there a patch?) Thanks, Allan
rbloom@apg-1.ARPA (Robert Bloom AMSTE-TOI 3775) (08/21/85)
Regarding the question on how to get double spacing in wordstar
without reformating ...
If you are using a diasy driven for your printer a '.lh16' dot
command at the top of the file will double-space everything. (A
blank line will show quad-spaceing!)
ah that's daisy driver above, not 'diasy driven' - not worth going
back {and correcting it
If you use a tty-like printer driver all is not lost - make up a
special copy of ws and patch the crlf address to <cr><lf><lf>
using the built-in patcher. (type a '+' to the installer menu.)
Also, there is the ws3330.dqc file in <cpm.wstar> at simtel20 that
gives *all* of the patch-points }iknown.
-bobmelmoy@NPRDC.ARPA (Mel Moy) (08/21/85)
You can double space your WS documents without having to reformat the whole file by writing a quick little BASIS program that will setup your printer to linefeed after each carriage return. Your only problem will probably be that the page breaks will cause you to have an extra blank page of output every third page. Of course you could suppress page formatting and avoid that as well. Once you have that two or three line BASIC program, you can run it anytime you want to output a double-spaced copy from WordStar.
ABN.ISCAMS@USC-ISID.ARPA (08/21/85)
Allen, Re doing a double spacing in WordStar files.. if no one else has a better idea, I suggest using ^Q^A substitution command, to look for all ^N's (WS's abbreviation for the normal CR/LF), and replacing them with ^N^J (CR/LF/LF) or ^N^N (CR/LF/CR/LF). You could then pick and choose if you desired NOT to double-double space between paragraphs. No additional formatting needed. If you want a SOFT doublespacing... ugh... couldn't do that, I don't think, since no way to send the hi-bit CR... Hope this helps, David Kirschbaum Toad Hall
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Is there a quick way of doing double spacing on Wordstar without
reformatting the whole file or using mailmerge. (or is there a patch?)
Thanks, Allan
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Allan,
There are two ways that I know of:
1. Set the line spacing to 2 with the Ctl-O-S command when you
begin, or,
2. Patch the line spacing byte to show 2 rather than 1 (I con't
have the address here at the office, but it is in most of the PD
files on patching WS).
Hope I've helped.
...Dick StanleyLOWANS.WBST@XEROX.ARPA (08/21/85)
Allen ^OS and set the spacing to 2 will double space as you write. Paul
walt_sak@proper.UUCP (Walt Sakai) (08/27/85)
RE: Double spacing WS files.
If you have Mailmerge try this undocumented feature:
.PF on
.LS 2
The .LS is for line set. The source file can remain single
spaced.
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