136. Wordwise margin tips
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This applies equally to Wordwise-Plus, of course. When mixing different
character sizes on a printer, you have a problem. You must decide on the
necessary Line Length and Left Margin settings in order to achieve
approximately the same apparent left and right margins. Here, therefore, is a
list of the Line Lengths and Left Margin settings I use for each character
size. I have an Epson-compatible printer, but I imagine most dot matrix
printers will be much the same in this respect. You cannot do condensed
enlarged text to match these margins, but you should be able to manage it
with condensed Elite on an Epson LX80.

  SIZE        STYLE    COLUMNS     SETTINGS

 Enlarged    Pica/NLQ    40        LL36  LM2
 Standard    Pica/NLQ    80        LL72  LM4
 Standard    Elite       96        LL86  LM5
 Condensed   Pica       132        LL123 LM7

Further to this, when changing from one character size to another, I find it
best to issue the printer command first, (terminated in a White code), and
then change the Line Length etc on the next line. It doesn't matter if you
start your text on the same line as the Line Length command, but if the
printer command is on the same line, or if it is on the previous line but not
terminated in a White code, then the first line of new text tends to have the
wrong left margin.

Below are five examples of changing to Elite text using ordinary Wordwise
commands, (if you have Wordwise-Plus then OC27,77 becomes ES"M"). The first
three tend to give odd results, but the last two are OK. In both of these,
the printer command is not on the same line as the start of the text, and the
line that it is on is properly terminated in a White code. I usually use the
last method, but everyone to their own.

This demonstrates the point that if you don't at first get the result you
expect from Wordwise, then try a slightly different way. Certainly, I find
that mixing printer codes which change character size, with text on the same
line, is almost guaranteed to cause trouble. This doesn't apply to commands
for emphasized, double-strike, italic etc, nor to most of the other embedded
commands.

 WRONG:   {G}OC27,77{G}LL86{G}LM5{W}This is your text.

 WRONG:   {G}OC27,77{G}LL86{G}LM5
          This is your text.

 WRONG:   {G}OC27,77
          {G}LL86{G}LM5{W}This is your text.

 RIGHT:   {G}OC27,77{G}LL86{G}LM5{W}
          This is your text.

 RIGHT:   {G}OC27,77{W}
          {G}LL86{G}LM5{W}This is your text.