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Irregular Spacing Between Words In Three-Colu
DocumentID: 627996
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 1:42:22 PM

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

Problem

Symptoms: When the user prints a three-column document to a Diablo 630 ECS printer, the document prints with irregular spacing between words. Sometimes there are 2 or 3 spaces between words and other times there is only half a space. Solutions: The document was printing correctly according to the settings the customer had for the document. The columns were set up to print with full justification. To line text up at both the left and the right margins, WordPerfect must compress or expand the text on each line. This means that some lines will have 2 or 3 spaces between each word and others will have less space.

The amount of space is controlled by Word Spacing Justification Limits found in the Format, Other, Printer Functions menu (the Typesetting dialog box in WPWin). By default the spaces on a line can be compressed to 60% or expanded up to 400%. WordPerfect will first try to compress the line to fit more text on the line. In the event that a line cannot be compressed enough to fit the next word, the word will be wrapped to the next line and the first line will be expanded to fill in the blank space. If the spaces have already been expanded to 400% and there is still blank space left to fill, WordPerfect will then add additional space between each letter. If the words are too compressed, increase the minimum justification. If the words are spaced too far apart, decrease the maximum justification. These justification limits are only used for full justification.

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