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Subject: Re: Keep the message on the screen

Author: Sarah Bird

Date: 07:39:57 04/02/99

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On April 02, 1999 at 10:31:37, Tim Mirabile wrote:

>On April 01, 1999 at 20:22:49, allan johnson wrote:
>
>>On April 01, 1999 at 15:58:04, Alan Grotier wrote:
>>
>>> Chess is the object of all this.
>>>
>>> However I am so frustrated when I am unable to read the
>>> contents of a message on the screen without scrolling from left
>>> to right.
>>>
>>> The software should not allow the text to exceed the screen area.
>>>
>>> Frustrated: (Hope my message is contained within the screen)
>>  and I thought I was alone in my frustration!
>>Allan
>
>Apparent screen area varies by platform, web browser, resolution, font style,
>and font size.
>
>Consider increasing your screen resolution, or decreasing the point size of your
>browser's fixed width font.  Using Windows, Netscape, 640x480 screen resolution,
>and Courier New at 10 pts, the 80 character word wrapping just barely goes off
>the edge of the screen.  I once had word wrapping at 75 characters, which would
>just fit in this configuration, but it would mess up the display of PGN games -
>the last move of each line would appear on a line by itself after word wrapping.

Yesterday I was trying to download games from
http://www.chesslab.com/PositionSearch.html
And when I cut and pasted the pgn to notepad I just got one long line of text.
Is this due to column width, font type, characters.
Any help.....thx.
UltraB





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