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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 |
