peter@aucs.UUCP (Peter Steele) (01/23/89)
I have two questions concerning WriteNow. I tried to find how to do these
in the (rather sparse) manual, but no luck.
1. How are widows and orphans controlled? The manual describes a feature
which allows you to keep lines together on the same page, but when I
use it, it wants to put the *whole* paragraph on one page. I don't
want that; I just want to prevent one line of a paragraph from getting
stranded. I can use their command to keep the first line of a paragraph
from ending up by itself as the last line of a page, but I can't see
how I can prevent the last line from being on a page by itself. In such
a case, I would normally want to force an extra line from the paragraph
onto the new page (Microsoft Word does this automatically), but I see
no simple way of doing this in WriteNow. Am I missing something?
2. My other problem concerns headers. I want my header line to be separated
from the first line of the main text body by exactly two 12 point lines.
However, WriteNow seems to put some inaccessible spacing between the header
region and the first line of the page body. This unwanted spacing is very
evident when "Show Space" is turned on. I can't seem to find anyway to
control this phantom spacing. Am I missing something?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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Peter Steele, Microcomputer Applications Analyst
Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada B0P1X0 (902)542-2201x121
UUCP: {uunet|watmath|utai|garfield}!dalcs!aucs!Peter
BITNET: Peter@Acadia Internet: Peter%Acadia.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU) (01/26/89)
Peter Steele (Peter@Acadia.Bitnet) asks about headers on WriteNow. I had the same problem. WriteNow tech support (nice people) recommended fiddling with the Page wrap factor in the Page Setup menu. Setting it to 6 scrunched the header and text body together. I needed this to set a multi-page table: I put the column headers in a Header field and wanted them to be inserted automatically. Peter's other problem concerns widows and orphans. I suspect, not having tried it, that the purpose of this command is to keep a paragraph on the same page. The best solution has always been a tiny bit of creative rewriting during the final draft. Hope this helps. Martin Minow minow%thundr.dec@decwrl.dec.com
kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr) (01/27/89)
In article <8901251439.AA20718@decwrl.dec.com> minow@thundr.dec.com (Repent! Godot is coming soon! Repent!) writes:
<Peter's other problem concerns widows and orphans. I suspect, not having
<tried it, that the purpose of this command is to keep a paragraph on
<the same page. The best solution has always been a tiny bit of creative
<rewriting during the final draft.
If WriteNow lets you define how many points of space to use between para-
graphs, another trick when you're in this bind is to steal a little space
from those areas on the page. Usually you can steal enough to get that one
more line of text you absolutely can't do without, and still not notice
that the spaces between paragraphs is a tad bit smaller.
Shirley Kehr