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- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 13:44:46 EDT
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- From: "Paul J. Bodin" <pjb3@CUNIXB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Columns
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- In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 13 Sep 92 17:50:29 IST
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- Michael Dick writes:
-
- > I just finished a brochure in landscape with three equal width columns.
- > Although using landscape is easier in NB4, the columns still leave much to be
- > desired! The cursor control leads readily to cursing. There is little
- > predictability in the way the cursor behaves. I think it would be preferable
- to
- > have only one column on display at a time and to toggle between columns like
- > windows (windettes?). The way the three columns disappear into each other with
- > a hyperactive cursor to boot is virtually psychedelic (spelling?, where's my
- > checker when I need it?)
-
- Unfortunately this is bound to be a problem while using a text mode
- program to display copy that is not monospaced. The source of the
- problem is that with proportionally spaced fonts one can often produce
- lines with many more than 80 characters in them, and that proportional
- character spacing does not neatly correspond to the rigid divisions on
- an 80 column text screen. The problem is obviously aggravated when
- one uses a landscape orientation, where the line is already 10 inches
- long and could not be properly represented even with a monospaced font
- without making decisions about what to leave out. Michael suggestion
- makes sense (the "windettes")--I wonder how difficult it would be to
- implement?
-
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