Fixed width font and premature line break?

[pgarst]

I'm using an older FM (7.1), windows, writing a document with some computer code, using fixed width fonts in the courier family, mostly 12 pt.

FM does not appear to know how long the lines are: it absolutely insists on breaking the lines well before they get to the right margin. This does not happen with variable width fonts. I've noticed that if I switch to a different fixed width font (e.g. courier -> courier std) FM breaks it at the same character position in the line, even though the length of the fragment it keeps on line 1 has a different length - as if it calculates line length based on some internal fantasy about how wide the characters are.

Does anybody have a fix or a workaround for this? Do you know if this is fixed in more recent versions? It's a serious problem for this document.

Thanks!

[Mike Wickham · Accepted solution]

Try setting DisplayUsingPrinterMetrics=On in maker.ini. This tells

FrameMaker to choose the number of pixels that matches line lengths. The

default setting of Off tells it to choose the number of pixels that displays

the characters clearest. This can result in lines displaying longer or

shorter than intended-- though they still print correctly.

[pgarst]

Thanks! That fixed it.

Peter