abrams@MITRE.ARPA (06/02/86)
I have experienced the following problems with AW+ and would appreciate hearing from anyone with related experience. In AW, when I print to disk, I se ^B=0, ^T=0, ^L=0, and ^Y=0 to get no page break and no left margin. IN AW+ I tried the same and got the error message "invalid margin". When I reset ^Y=132, that error message went away. It doesn't seem to be an appropriate error message, but that's not too important. But I seem to be unable to eliminate blank spaces skipped between "pages". A ^H in the text really caused a problem, producing a header and a page number (if was ignored in AW). Even when I removed the ^H, I still got lots of blank lines. I guess I'll have to continue using AW unless somebody has a suggestion. Sincerely, - Marshall D. Abrams, phone: (703) 883-6938 The MITRE Corporation, 1820 Dolley Madison Blvd. Mail Stop W458, Mc Lean, VA 22102
wrd@tekigm2.UUCP (Bill Dippert) (06/04/86)
In article <8606021155.AA26150@mitre.ARPA>, abrams@MITRE.ARPA writes: > > In AW, when I print to disk, I se ^B=0, ^T=0, ^L=0, and ^Y=0 to get no > page break and no left margin. IN AW+ I tried the same and got the > error message "invalid margin". When I reset ^Y=132, that error > message went away. It doesn't seem to be an appropriate error message, > but that's not too important. > > But I seem to be unable to eliminate blank spaces skipped between > "pages". A ^H in the text really caused a problem, producing a header > and a page number (if was ignored in AW). Even when I removed the ^H, > I still got lots of blank lines. > The reason for the blank lines is that you are telling AW+ to insert them by making your page length 66 lines long. ^Y = 132 means that page length is is 66 lines long (^Y = 0 similarly tells it no page length which should be an error). You need to set ^Y = 66x# of pages or maybe ^Y = 999. And you are correct that a ^H in the text will give you a header or page # depending upon how you do it. --Bill--