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TITLE: How to Align Columns of Text
PRODUCT: Ami Pro 2.0
DATE: 30-Oct-1991
PROBLEM:
Columns of text do not align properly when printed.
SOLUTION:
Usually misaligned columns of text are caused by printing with a proportional
font using spaces to align the text.
Spaces are actually characters with a width value. Since proportional font
characters have a different width for each character (thin letters are
allocated less space than wide letters), the same number of spaces inserted to
move text to a location on one line will not be the number of spaces needed to
move text to that location on other lines. By contrast, fixed pitch fonts
have the same width for each character and can be more accurately aligned with
spaces (each space character moves all text to the right the same amount of
space).
There are two ways to accurately print columns of text in a proportional font.
The first method is to establish a tab position for the beginning of each
column. Press TAB before moving to the next column when typing text. A tab
provides a way to move to a certain horizontal location without using a space
character that is counted in the total character width of a line.
The second method is to create a table with an appropriate number of columns
for the text. Ami Pro tables provide a matrix of cells similar to a
spreadsheet. The cells can automatically increase in size to accommodate
word-wrapped paragraphs and multiple lines when automatic row size in table
layout is selected. Columns of text in tables will align correctly.