bobmon@iuvax.UUCP (Robert Montante) (01/22/87)
>PC-Write 2.7 has a spelling checker, and your emacs files can be read >by PC-Write, so If you can find a copy this will solve your problem. > >Frank Cooley >sdcrdcf!burdvax!fac I recently used PC-Write v2.55 for a paper that I right-justified. I was fairly happy with it, but in the middle someone offered v2.6 which had some nice features. Unfortunately, it also had a different right-justifying algo- rithm, much inferior. For example: v2.55 Blah blah blah. Blah blah blah v2.6 Blah blah blah. Blah blah blah What I'm trying to show is padding-with-blanks, starting (for this line) on the right, after first padding at punctuation. v2.55 knows to skip the space after the period, because it already put a blank there. v2.6 doesn't know about that; it pads after the punctuation, then adds another blank when it pads between words. Does anyone know how v2.7 behaves? Or how to get around this ugliness in v2.6? (Or a Hebrew word-processor so I can write in the other direction? :-)
rps@homxc.UUCP (01/23/87)
From the PC-Write version 2.7 manual: "To justify, PC-Write finds spaces in a line and adds Soft-Spaces after them until it fills out the line. It adds Soft-Spaces first after spaces that follow punctuation marks, then after other spaces between words. PC-Write inserts the spaces in alternate lines from the left and the right, to avoid a wavy look on the page." This seems to explain the effect in version 2.6 of padding more than 2 spaces after a period. Version 2.7 will micro justify if your printer is capable of graphics, such as an Epson FX or IBM ProPrinter. Micro Justification is where all the words on the line are the same distance apart. PC-Write will not remove hard spaces (like the two that normally follow a period) during regular or micro justification but it may add to them. This sort of behavior seems typical of text justification functions on the various word processors I have used. Russ Sharples homxc!rps