Force 65 characters

[MP3Sound]

Hi from Australia

I was wondering if there was some software or techniques to force text to hard return at 65 characters.

The main reason for this is that many ezine writers require articles of this size and there must be an easier way than counting them.

Your assistance would be appreciated.

Quentin

[edited by: Woz at 7:27 am (utc) on Oct. 16, 2004]
[edit reason] no SIGs please, see TOS#13 [/edit]

[vkaryl]

Hmmm. Well, it might depend on what you use as a word processor, if you use one. I can quite handily do this in WordPerfect, in several fashions. It probably also can be done in Word, but I don't use Word so I haven't a clue. You MIGHT be able to get Word Pad to do this, but I don't think there's a hope in Notepad.

If you don't use a standard word processor/text editor, then unless the program you do use has a techie place to ask stuff like this, or unless someone here uses the same program and has some tweaks for it, you may have a hard time "fixing" the problem.

Sounds like a great idea though - it would certainly make what you need to do simpler!

[photon]

If you talking about doing that on a web page, one solution could be to use a monospaced font, then set the width of your container to 65em.

[Max_K]

In the textarea tag's attributes, set COLS="65" and WRAP="HARD"

[Max_K]

Setting WRAP="PHYSICAL" is a synonym for this, I believe.