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Tables Spreading Out - Cursor Position Is Con |
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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS
Problem
Symptoms: When the customer edits a right-justified table, the document screen stretches out, and it is difficult to determine exactly where the cursor is. When the customer tabs to a specific cell, the cursor appears to be on the left side of the screen, although the Reveal Codes screen shows the cursor in the correct position in the cell. It is very difficult to make corrections when this happens. This will only happen if the cell is formatted for right justification and if Spacing Between Text and Lines under Options is anything but the default. The table displays properly in View Document, and it prints correctly. Pressing Screen Rewrite (Ctrl-F3, 3), briefly returns the document screen to normal. Solutions: Set automatic display pitch to .1 by pressing Shft-F8 | Document | Display Pitch. Setting automatic display pitch adjustment to "No" will eliminate the adjusting, but the last letter of flush right text will often be overwritten by the cell border. Comments: This is fundamentally a phenomenon of Display Pitch. The last character of the flush right text is supposed to be at a certain location on the screen. Since there is no inside border space and the border line is of negligible width, the first character of the next cell is supposed to be at the very next character position, yet the character representing the border is supposed to be between those two characters. The automatic display pitch adjustment thus tries to stretch out the text so that there is no overlap, which results in the maximum stretching (display pitch = .025"). The stretching happens gradually, which accounts for the jerking, and whenever WP stretches, it redisplays the whole screen, which accounts for the slowness. The customer could also set the spacing between text and lines (inside border space) to a greater amount to avoid this problem. Status: Sent to Development ***|sent to dev|*** Press Enter on link token. |
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