Re: Xywrite antiques -Reply

[cld@xxxxxxxx (Carl Distefano)]

Reply to note from Bill Troop  Sat, 12 May 2001
10:51:11 -0400

> MS Word has a somewhat useful feature whereby you can "expand"
> type by a given amount -- for instance, one point. In
> typesetting vocabulary, you can track the type positively. I
> work with a writer who is addicted to this feature, though he
> holds no brief for MS Word. Is there that one could fake this
> feature in XyWrite? It doesn't seem as if it would be that
> difficult

I don't have a clear idea of what this feature does. Increases the
type size? That's what the SZ command is for. SZ accepts absolute
or relative values. Thus, SZ 12PT sets an absolute size of 12
points, whereas SZ +1PT increases the current type size -- whatever
it happens to be at the cursor position -- by 1 point and SZ -1PT
decreases it by 1 point, etc. Is this what you mean by "track the
type positively", or is it something fancy?

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Carl Distefano
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