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20 years ago I also adjusted WordStar character-width tables for Sanders
printers and for Daisy wheels.
When will Word catch up with WordStar?
Judith
RD wrote
>In the early days, I used WordStar. I had to manually adjust the
>character-width tables to accurately match my daisy-wheel printer, but it
>worked. Full justification nearly always resulted in a pleasing,
>proportionally-spaced appearance, regardless of column width.
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>Finally, I tried Word.
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>Each time I open this application, I am reminded that it cannot do what my
>CP/M version of WordStar 3.3 did, nearly twenty years ago>
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