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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 30 Sep 2000.
Re: Trying to keep text centered

Re: Trying to keep text centered

From bam <ba...@digital.net> · alt.ascii-art · 30 Sep 2000 00:00 · View full thread · report
"Anita Doobie - NOW" <ton...@aol.completely> wrote

>      When you want to take control of your spaces in a text document you
need
> to use a MONOSPACED FONT like COURIER NEW, or TERMINAL or TOPAZ NEW. A
> monospaced font will allow you to control spacing between words instead of
> adjusting the spaces automatically the way most other TrueType fonts are
> manipulated. A monospaced font works exactly like a typewriter, one letter
and
> character per space. This is why monospaced fonts are used with ASCII, we
can
> control the position of the characters.
>      When you are creating a new document, switch to a mono font
immediately
> before typing anything. If you import the document to another application
that
> uses another font on you, highlight all of the text and then select one of
the
> mono fonts.
>      If it is impossible to change fonts, you'll have to do it manually
and
> have several copies of the same document in different fonts.
>      Removing WORD WRAP would help, this means you would have to use a
ENTER at
> the end of each line instead of letting the text go to the next line by
itself
> would help (word wrapping).


What about others who open my texts on another computer. Will everything I
did go awry?

I know what happens when you unenable word wrap, but I don't understand the
benefit. Please explain. Also, will it do any good when people on other
computers open it?

Regards,

Bryan

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