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Display Scrolls From Left To Right With Full
DocumentID: 606614
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 1:31:45 PM

The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: When the customer selects a 12cpi font in WordPerfect, the document screen shifts from left to right. With 1" left and right margins, there should be 78 characters per line. The monitor has 80 columns, so WP should not scroll from left to right. When Justification is set to Full, WP allows more than 78 characters per line. This causes the document to shift from left and right. If Justification is set to Left, there is no problem. The customer would like to know why there is a difference between Full and Left Justification. Solutions: When the document is set up for full justification, WP expands or compresses the lines of text so they line up at the right margin. By default, WP will compress a line up to 60% and expand it up to 400%. For example, if you have 76 characters on a line and you add one more word, WP will try to fit it on the line by compressing all the spaces. If the spaces are compressed to 60% their normal size and the word still does not fit, then WP will place the word on the next line and then expand the spaces so that the first line is flush with the right margin. Normally WP will only change the spaces between words, but if there is no other choice, it will change the spacing between characters.

There are a few options for avoiding problems with the screen scrolling from left to right. First of all, the customer can select a text screen driver that puts the graphics card into a compressed mode displaying more columns and/or rows (e.g., 128 columns x 40 rows). If the graphics card does not support more columns than 80, and the customer has an EGA or VGA graphics adapter, the customer can select the text screen driver called IBM EGA in Graphics Mode. This driver ships on the Additional Graphics Drivers disk and does not ship with WP. This driver will display 106 columns x 35 rows.

Another option is to change the Word Spacing Justification Limits to 100% for compression and 400% for expansion (Shift-F8, 4, 6, 4). This will allow text to expand out to the right margin, but will not allow text to be compressed to fit more on a line.

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