alan@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Alan Phillips) (01/29/91)
I've got a nicely formatted document in W4W, with neatly justified paragraphs, and I need an ASCII copy to e-mail off somewhere. So I select the Generic/TextOnly driver on FILE:, print to it, and check the result. What I get is one file line per _character_; each line has the right number of spaces to get to the place on the line where the character goes, and a CR! Doesn't matter even if I carefully reformat the document so everything is in fixed-pitch 'Roman 10cpi' normal weight upright face; it still does it. Not exactly the best thing to e-mail to someone, really. What _does_ make it go right is setting all the paras to be left justified. Then I get nice ASCII text. Just as I wanted, apart from the formatting being quite different from my requirements. Now Word for DOS will print plain text to a file whatever the document looks like. How on earth do I get W4W to do it? Since it's a fixed pitch font, it doesn't _need_ to do what it does, and anyway the end result (as far as a printer is concerned, but not a file for e-mail) is exactly the same anyway. Maybe I need to save from W4W into Word for DOS format and do the plain print from that?? :-(