On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 22:08:55 +0200, "Doug Robbins - Word MVP"
wrote:

And in those days, you used fixed width fonts and you knew exactly how many
characters fitted onto one line.

You may be right. It's been so long. But I think we did have
proportional space fonts as well.

In any case, it would not be much harder for the word processor to do
the "split" function with proportional space fonts than monospace. The
work processor has to know "exactly how many characters will fit on a
line" regardless.

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