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Re: decwrite

#3462
From: John Haxby
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1991 16:23
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In article <csmoe.670570070@knuth>, csmoe@knuth.MTSU.EDU (Monisha Guglani) writes:
|> Hi,
|> 	Has anyone used dec's decwrite in the report style and managed to
|> 	get it to double space (without hitting carriage return) when it
|> 	wraps over to the next line. I've read through the manuals but
|> 	without any hint of a suggestion! Any help would be appreciated!!

If you set the leading to something large (eg paragraph point size + 2)
in the style for which ever paragraphs you want double spaced, you'll
get the desired effect.  It'll look horrible, but it's what you want....
-- 
John Haxby, Definitively Wrong.
Digital				<jch@wessex.rdg.dec.com>
Reading, England		<...!ukc!wessex!jch>
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From: jch@hollie.rdg.dec.com (John Haxby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: decwrite
Keywords: decwrite
Message-ID: <1991Apr11.162343.15624@hollie.rdg.dec.com>
Date: 11 Apr 91 16:23:43 GMT
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