Ways To Count The Number Of Characters On A L

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Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:29:15 PM

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

Problem

Symptoms: The customer would like to be able to count how many characters are on a line of text. The obvious way to do this is to choose Units of Measure (Shift-F1, 3, 8) as WordPerfect 4.2 units. However, this does not work; the customer gets the lines as wanted, but the POS indicator on the status line remains in centimeters. Solutions: When WP 4.2 was developed, most printers were still using fixed pitch fonts, and therefore, the status line counted in whole numbers. With WP 5.0 and 5.1, proportional spaced fonts have become more popular. The program was redesigned to measure these fonts more accurately. Because of this, there are two ways to count the number of characters on a line: (1) use a fixed pitch font, such as Courier 10, with the 4.2 Units of Measure or (2) create a macro that would count the number of characters on the line. *This information is given strictly as a troubleshooting option.

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