Re: Trying to keep text centered
"christoph manz" <zem...@usa.net> wrote > depends on what preferences they choose... if they don't use a monospace > font you don't stand a chance :/ And who does these days? > well, there's no standard word wrap lenght [although in email clients 72 > and 80 chars are often used] so you won't know exactly what line-lenght > the reader has set in his preferences... therefore it will be very > difficult [if not impossible] to get some textpassages aligned.. Dat's what I was afeared of. > on the other hand if you go by hard line-breaks [i.e. enter or return] > you'll know exactly where the center and right border is going to be... > just make sure you choose a short lenght [less than 60 chars should do] > because otherwise your text will look really ugly to somebody which has > a shorter word wrap setting... > > the downside of hard returns is that it's a pain if you have to do > corrections as all of the lines below will get affected... > > the best solution i can think of is to use an editor where you can set > the word wrap to a fixed lenght [i.e. 60 chars] and that let's you > hard-wrap the text in the end... - and unwrap again if you want to write > additions... Thanks - I'll save this part. I think it's the only solution (if there's any at all). > bbedit by barebones is a great text editor that does exactly that [and > more]... unfortunately it's only for mac [or was?] but i'm sure there's > a bunch of windows editors that do the same... Thanks - I'll look around. Bryan
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