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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 1 Oct 2000.
Re: Trying to keep text centered

Re: Trying to keep text centered

Anita Doobie - NOW wrote:
> 
> >Subject: Trying to keep text centered
> >From: "bam" ba...@digital.net
> >Date: 9/30/00 1:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time
> >Message-id: <stc...@corp.supernews.com>
> >
> >Any tutorials out there for text only projects?
> >
> >Not "art" per se, but just things like spacing and centering, etc.
> >
> >It seems that every application shifts my texts around whenever I try to
> >create a certain number of spaces between words.
> >
> >Thank you
> >
> >Bryan
> 
>      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).

AND..................N E V E R,,,,,,,E V E R....... use tabs........


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