Right Column Of Text With Tabs Is Being Overp

DocumentID: 636656
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 3:04:20 PM

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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: A customer has a document with tabular columns in which the right column of numbers is being "crunched" when it prints. To duplicate this, use a relative tab set for 1.06, 1.68, 5.04, with a Times 12pt proportionally spaced font with 1.5" L/R margins. When the user tabs over to the third tab and types in $75,000 and presses Enter, the cursor goes to Pos 7.15" where the [HRt] finally falls. The margin, of course, should have stopped at Pos 7". When the document is printed (or viewed) the right column is crunched so that it is within the Pos 7" margin. In this example, the numbers ($75,000) are all slightly overlapping. Solutions: This is happening because the final 0 in 75,000 is right in the hyphenation zone. Because the customer is using a proportionally spaced font, the 75,000 takes more room than say, 75,111. If the customer wants WP to wrap right at the expected 7" (using a 1.5" margin) he should change the right hyphenation zone to 0. (You can leave the left setting of 10 alone.) This is working as designed and is a characteristic of the hyphenation zone.

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