[GreenKeys] 100 Speed ITTY Channel
Ralph Mowery
rmowery28146 at earthlink.net
Thu Dec 23 19:16:07 EST 2010
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Haynes" <jhhaynes at earthlink.net>
> length of 69 characters if margins are equal on both sides. Maybe you
> could let it go to 72 characters, by encroaching on the right margin, or
> even a few more by readjusting the left margin. I didn't check the
> right margin setting.
>
> When I say we can be smart about it with a computer, I mean we can see
> where the last word on the line will end and insert a CR-LF sequence
> wherever needed to prevent exceeding any line length we choose. Or we
> could even hyphenate, but that may involve more smarts than we want
> to invest.
>
>
It should not be a problem for the computers to limit the line lenghts.
Almost 20 years ago I wrote a 'glass teletype' program that would let you
type on the computer keyboard. I set it to look for a space between words
after 65 or 68 characters (don't remember which) and after that space it
would do an end of line sequence of CR,CR,LF,LTRS. If it did not see a
space after that, it would force a end of line sequence at 72 charcters.
All this was done at the computer machine language level. It should only
take a few more lines of code to add the hyphen.
I have a Modle 19 and it is irriatating when the computers do not send the
EOL sequence and all I get is a black box at the end of the line.
The computer program does not have this problem.
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