Re: Line Number Alignment

[tjh@xxxxxxxx]

I need to head off Nathan and David before this thread takes
the wrong fork in the road!

The line numbering I refer to is that controlled by the LN
command (see p. 4-104 of the Jan 1993 Command Reference
Guide, document 003500-01, which I think is the last XY DOS
maual.) This command numbers each line of text in the
margin. It's useful if you have a long document that you
need to discuss with others; you can then say "at line 582"
instead of "page 14, um, let's see, about, ah, ah, 18 lines
down . . ."

The line numbers print in whatever font is in effect at the
time the LN command is placed, and they have their own
offset (odd and even pages) independent of the offset (or
margins) specified for the page. You can specify numbering
every line, every n line, number blank lines or no, number
headers/footers or no. Numbers can begin with 1 (or
whatever you want) on each page, or run consecutively to the
end of the document.

You specify all of the above with LN and values, and then
turn the line numbers on and off with a following LN 1 or 0.
I used to use them for drafts and then turn them off for
final execution copies, but now I leave them on the finals
too. In 9pt Helvetica, they are unobtrusive yet handy.
(And there's a tradition of line numbered printed forms in
the maritime world, so most readers of my documents find it
familiar.)

Now, if I can only get the alignment bug under control . . .

  Tom Hawley
  BURKE & PARSONS
  tjh@xxxxxxxx