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PC-Write (was Re: spelling chequers)

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From: Robert Montante
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1987 23:55
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>PC-Write 2.7 has a spelling checker, and your emacs files can be read
>by PC-Write, so If you can find a copy this will solve your problem.
>
>Frank Cooley
>sdcrdcf!burdvax!fac

I recently used PC-Write v2.55 for a paper that I right-justified.  I was
fairly happy with it, but in the middle someone offered v2.6 which had some
nice features.  Unfortunately, it also had a different right-justifying algo-
rithm, much inferior.  For example:

	v2.55	Blah blah  blah.   Blah  blah  blah

	v2.6	Blah blah blah.    Blah  blah  blah

What I'm trying to show is padding-with-blanks, starting (for this line) on the
right, after first padding at punctuation.  v2.55 knows to skip the space after
the period, because it already put a blank there.  v2.6 doesn't know about
that; it pads after the punctuation, then adds another blank when it pads
between words.

Does anyone know how v2.7 behaves?  Or how to get around this ugliness in v2.6?
(Or a Hebrew word-processor so I can write in the other direction? :-)
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From: bobmon@iuvax.UUCP (Robert Montante)
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Subject: PC-Write (was Re: spelling chequers)
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Date: Wed, 21-Jan-87 18:55:14 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 21 18:55:14 1987
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