Is It Possible To Change Character Used By Do

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Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:29:36 PM

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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: The customer wondered if there is a feature for changing the character used by a dot leader tab. The customer is required to use "dash leader tabs" in his documents. These are almost exactly like dot leaders, but use hyphens in the place of the periods. By editing a particular font's character map, the customer was able to get dot leader tabs to print out as dash leader tabs, but the only drawback was that all of the periods in the document changed to hyphens as well. Is there some way to get the dot leaders to be hyphens, yet still keep the periods as periods? Solutions: The character used for the dot leader is set in the executable file. This character can not be changed; but you can set the code for the period to be a dash as described above. The problem with this is the periods in the document also print out as dashes. To take this one step further, you would need to create a separate font that has the period defined as a dash, then switch to this font when doing tabs, then back to the original font afterwards. The ability to change the dot leader tab character should be written up as an enhancement.

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