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- From: harmon@pegasus.montclair.edu (Derek Harmon)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Processing C language listings -- Help!
- Date: 9 Feb 1996 03:00:11 -0500
- Organization: Montclair State University
- Message-ID: <harmon.823852728@pegasus.montclair.edu>
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- ** Quoting a message by <ac355@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> dated <07-Feb-1996>:
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- > Word (version 7) for Windows. Much of the manual involves importing
- > program listings in C, C++ and Microsoft Visual C. Word is destroying all
- > the listings I am trying to import.
-
- I know the problem well !!! :) Actually for me it's Ami Pro...
-
- > The proportional fonts are destroying
- > all the tabs and spaces. Also there is very little distinction between ls
- > and 1, Os and 0s and so on. What is also aggravating with Word is that
- > insists on changing all my single and double typewriter style quotes into
- > front and backwards pointing quotes
-
- Never had the problem with quote marks, I guess Word is just more sinister
- about these things. But you say it yourself, the proportional fonts are de-
- stroying your spacing. First, use a utility or p.d. text editor to convert
- all your tabs to spaces (I have to do that very thing before uploading these
- messages to this group, Borland's IDE sticks tabs through my code snippets).
- Tab stops vary between page styles. Second, use a fixed font (you go on to
- say this isn't possible?).. it shouldn't be a case of having to download fonts
- to your printer and having no Monospaced (often denoted MS, such as MS Serif)
- fonts, especially if you are using Windows and TrueType fonts. Yeah, its
- scraping the bottom of the barrel, but virtually all Windows installations
- have the System Fixed Font. If you don't have it, your dialog boxes probably
- would look funny. :)
-
- Another thing I watch for is CRs/LFs rolling lines onto the same line, even
- when importing ASCII in Ami Pro. There are a few options that can be finnagled
- though, and then I "Insert" (not "Open") the ASCII document into a .SAM docu-
- ment. This has just been a problem in my experience.
-
- Ok, there are no C snippets in this post -- but try presenting your C source
- to a manager or professor printed via "type source.c > prn" compared to Ami Pro
- with italicized variables and bold keywords, and you'll understand.
-
- -- Stone
- --
- # Derek Harmon (aka Stonelight) harmon@pegasus.montclair.edu
- # - Computer Science Undergrad, Montclair State University, NJ
- # - My views are my own, nobody else is this creative. 3;)>
- ... Santa's elves are just a bunch of subordinate Clauses.
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