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- Two-Column Justified Printing
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-
- The other day I had to do a report, and decided that a 2-column justified
- format, instead of a "letter" form would make for a clearer and neater
- "copy" from which to make about 150 offsets. To my delight, I discovered
- that Pocket Writer2 made the task a breeze, and that the same principals
- should work with most any WP:
-
- [1] In text mode set the following formats: left margin 1, right margin
- 37, justify on, page length 66, printed page 60. (Once set-up, write any
- additional instructions on the page for your use. You will over-write
- these later. Then SAVE this form for future use, 2COLUMN.FORM).
-
- [2] Write the article, making whatever editing changes required, as
- usual.
-
- [3] SAVE the article file. (In case more editing is needed.)
-
- [4] Change the buffer article to sequential. (Control A)
-
- [5] Change the buffer article back to text format. (Control A)
-
- [6] Set right margin to 80, and your desired printing pitch. (All other
- settings should be at their defaults: left margin, 1; page length 66;
- printed page, 60; justify, off.)
-
- [7] Then just move BLOCKS: contents page two to page 1, row 1, column 43;
- page three to page 2, row 1, column 1; page four to page two, row 1,
- column 43, and so forth. And, save this file, and then print!
-
- [8] At a later date, to print more "final copies" just load the file
- saved in #8 above, and print. If further editing is required, load and
- edit the file saved in step #3, and proceed thru steps 3-7.
-
- Other Suggestions:
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-
- Just as I saved the original form as 2COLUMN.FORM, including any
- instructions to remind me of the procedure, I do the same for each bbs I
- call. It seems each has its own preference for length, columns, etc. So
- GEnie.form is set up differently from Plink.form, etc. Makes the writing
- of off-line replies very convenient. Especially when you also use the
- alternate buffer option in Writer2, where captured buffered stuff is
- loaded, and can easilly be referred to.
-
- And, if you are at all like me, a major use of the PC is for WP, including
- letters, and other forms, on which today's date is inserted. Here too, I
- use a file called DATE.FORM, which I load and fill in with the current
- date each day. It is then saved to RAM. All other forms, yup I have
- more, like letter.form, memo.form, etc., have a line referring to an
- external file called DATE.FORM located on RAM. All these forms are
- already formatted for elaborate headers, and insertion of today's date, so
- that once loaded, I can immediately begin with the contents. Saves a lot
- of repititious typing. Isn't that what WP'ing is all about?
-
- Howie