Technical Memo: RIGHT MARGIN IS TRUNCATED





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RIGHT MARGIN IS TRUNCATED (OR, HOW TO GET 132 COLUMNS ON A PAGE)

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Some reports printed through ScriptServer for OpenVMS may exceed the right margin of the page, thus truncating data on the far right. To prevent this, font scale has to be reduced to the point where the report is unreadable.

ScriptServer can accommodate wide reports by using the Monospace Fonts feature. If you are using a proportionally spaced font, the results may look a little awkward. Monospaced fonts like Courier (the default font), however, incorporate these spacing changes more gracefully.

To take advantage of the Monospace Feature through the SCRIPT menu, use the MO command to select a new value:

MO ###

This command and its current value is found on the second page of the menu (access this page with the NEXT SCREEN button, or CTRL/N on keyboards without a NEXT SCREEN key).

To use this feature from the PRINT command, use the /PARAMETER=MONOSPACE=###:

$ PRINT/PARAM=MONOSPACE=###/QUEUE=queue-name file-name

In both cases, "###" represents the value of the monospace distance (the distance between characters). Default values for this distance are typically in the 600-700 range. Specifying a smaller value such as 500 will push the letters closer together. Through experimentation you will quickly see how you can easily manipulate the widths of your reports.

NOTE: This is discussed more fully in sections 8.3.27, 8.4.27, and 9.3.19 of the ScriptServer Printing System User's Guide V5.0, Revision B, January 1996.