Re: IW II woes

[CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Fri, 08 Mar 2002 10:02:31 -0600, noone@nowhere.net wrote:

>Definitions:
>A Carriage return (CR) brings the printer head back to the beginning of
>the current line.
>
>A Line feed (lf) moves down one line in the vertical plain but does not
>change the horizontal plain.
>
>Printers usually require both a CR and LF at the end of a line to
>advance the paper properly.  Apple software normally only sends a CR, so
>most printers can be set to automatically take a CR and add the LF to
>it.  You may need to turn this feature off on your printer if your
>software is already sending the LF or set the software to not send the
>LF.
>
>A document sent to a printer is a continuous string of characters. 
>Embedded in this string are control codes such as CR and LF to cause the
>printer to realign itself to force where the end of a line is.  If the
>codes were not there, a word could be split over two lines whenever the
>printer go to the edge of a page.
>
>If you reach the end of the physical limits on a printer line, it
>normally inserts a CR and LF and then continues printing the continuous
>string of characters.  If the printer reaches the end of a physical line
>and it automatically generates a CRLF, then prints the CR LF sent form
>the computer, then you will get the double spacing.
>
>Try limiting the number of characters per line to 2 less than the number
>that will fit on a single line.
>8 inches wide * pitch -2

This was a good post but I thought I'd mention the three possible
places that line feeds can be added just for clarity and because one
was missed above.

1) The software you are using might have an option to send a line feed
after a carriage return.

2) Your printer interface card may be set with either jumpers or
through an initialization string to add a line feed after a carriage
return.

3) Your printer can be set with either jumpers or through an
initialization string to add a line feed after a carriage return.

If you get too many of these points adding line feeds to your print
out the print out will end up being at least double spaced.

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