Subject: Alignment
From: Don Crowder (guitarman@281.com)
Date: Wed Jan 31 2001 - 13:51:33 CST
I've been preparing course material for a beginner's guitar course I'll be teaching soon. In typing up a song, where you know the song but not how to play it, it's pretty standard to type the chord letters over the sylable in the lyrics, where the downbeat, for that chord falls. That's how I'm typing up the songs I'm using for learning porposes. When I print the lyrics (+ chords), the chords are out of allignment, even though they appear correctly on screen. I first thought the problem was that I was using different font sizes, for the lyrics and chords, but, even when I used the same font, and font size, the chords are still printed out of allignment. They show to be perfectly alligned on-screen, but that's not how they print. As nearly as I can surmise, Abi is internally using a different width, for a space, from that used by my computer/printer.
My system is a Cyrix M II (32 meg RAM) running Windows 98, 2nd edition 4.10.2222A. The printer is an Epson, Stylus, Color 640.
I tried a few lines in (argh, I hate to say it so I'll say it small) Wordpad and they worked perfectly. This is very frustrating for me. Abi makes such an attractive page, where the "other" software prints a stark, utilitarian page. Anyway, I like Abi, even with all the hassles I incur in using it (like having it crash if I insert pictures in the document).
Is there a fix for this problem? Or should I wait for the next release Thus far, every time I've had a problem, I went to the Abiword site, and downloaded the latest release. There always seemed to be another release waiting, and it always seemed to fix my problem, but this time, I'm using Abi 7.12 and that, as far as I know, is the latest.
Guitarman is Don Crowder
the guitargeek from Tow
(sounds like "cow"), Texas
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