It gets more complicated still when you include font size, and
non-proportionate fonts, which are standard, making such points less
relevant. It'll all come out fine in the printout - or, visually, the
Print Preview.
So, for a verbal or surface understanding, let's use a typewriter and
insert a sheet of A4 paper where a full line might be 60 or 65
characters in width (depending on margin settings, particularly the
right margin), and subtract the number of characters in the centred text
from 65 and then divide the remainder by two, allowing for one more
space to the right if the centred text has an odd or even number of
characters - depending on what the margin settings are. thus, where the
right margin was half-an-inch (5 spaces), the left margin 1 inch (10
spaces), you have 65 spaces (or 6.5 inches) width to play with on an A4
standard sheet of paper. If the centred text is 20 characters, it will
start from a position 22 spaces in from the left margin. (this is how we
used to do things.)
----- Original Message -----
From: "DERICK GREEFF" <zs1...@cybersmart.co.za>
To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 2:48 PM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Centering text and JAWS
So "Thus Column 1 tells you only that you are on the first column of
text,
not your position in the actual line." But how do I then determine
where
this text is situated in a particular line in the indicator only tells
me
that I'm on the first column of the text; I thought this was going to
be
simple but it gets more complicated!!!
DERICK
-----Original Message-----
From: jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com
[mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Ann Byrne
Sent: 14 October 2010 03:06 PM
To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Centering text and JAWS
Just as a blank line in a document is not a line filled with blanks,
centered text is not blanks plus text plus blanks. A line space
indicator is a single character, and a centering indicator is
likewise a single character. Thus Column 1 tells you only that you
are on the first column of text, not your position in the actual line.
Stinks, doesn't it?
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