cca@pur-phy (Charles C. Allen) (01/30/88)
> The problem is that the entire printed area is shifted to the left > about an inch and a half from what the layout, margins, and rulers > specify. This even results, in some cases, in left-hand edge of the > text not being printed. > > A perhaps related item is that the rulers in FWP don't scale > properly with Imagewriter text. I line of text that shows as six > inches long on the ruler on the screen is only about five and a > quarter inches when printed. "That's not a bug, it's a feature!" Here's what the pre-release manual has to say on page 247 when talking about the ImageWriter Page Setup dialog: "If the Tall Adjusted option is selected, screen measurements will be reproduced correctly when printing on the ImageWriter. If the Tall Adjusted option is not selected, screen measurements will be reduced 10% horizontally when printing...." That's sort of a wimp-out on their part, but it's tolerable (I always use Tall Adjusted out of habit). The annoying part is that Tall Adjusted is not the default, you have to turn it on yourself. > Does anyone know of either a similar DA or a word processor that > will let you type in an abbreviation that will be automatically > expanded as soon as you type white space? OR, a word processor that > does the same? OR, a word processor that had a glossary facility > similar to the old Microsoft Word 1.05 where you typed one keystroke > after the abbreviation to expand it? FullWrite has both glossaries and variables. Both may be "invoked" by typing a single command-key, then as much of the abbreviation as needed to make it unique, then hitting return. Glossaries do a simple text substitution as described above. Variables are "hot-linked", so that a change in the variable contents will be reflected in all usages of that variable. Glossaries can contain only text, while variables can be text or pictures. On the other hand, you can make glossary files, while variables are tied to the document (although they can be copied to other documents). Charlie Allen cca@newton.physics.purdue.edu