RE: Stata Wishlist: Line wrap when printing from viewer

[Roger Newson <roger.newson@kcl.ac.uk>]

At 16:11 24/06/2004, Nick Cox wrote (in reply to Shawn.Fultz):
> Unless I'm missing something specific,
> I think this is based on a misunderstanding.
> Help files, as from Stata 7, are based on
> SMCL, and there is no fixed, pre-defined line width,
> although there can be, and often are, fixed
> new paragraphs.
>
> Rather the issue is to size your window
> so that what is copied and later printed
> is the right size.
This issue is surely part of the general issue of saving reproducible 
windowing preferences. With the present technology (correct me if I'm 
wrong), if you want the printed lines from the Help window to be the right 
size for your printer, then you have to tweak the window size by trial and 
error, typically wasting a bit of paper in the process, and then use the 
menu sequence

Prefs->Save Windowing Preferences

to save that window size for the Help window, together with window sizes 
and positions for all other Stata windows. If you later change the Help 
window size, then you can restore it using the menu sequence

Prefs->Load Windowing Preferences

The main limitation of this practice is that we can only save one set of 
windowing preferences at a time. It would be useful to have a library of 
windowing preference sets, and to load each one at will.
Unfortunately, if like me you use Windows, then, to do this, you must 
either start working with the Registry Editor and create a library of .reg 
documents containing Stata windowing preferences, or re-define yourself at 
system level as a set of multiple users, each with its own set of windowing 
preferences. The first of these possibilities apparently can render your 
computer unusable if you make a minor mistake, and the second would create 
extra work for the system administrator (at least in our system).

If StataCorp are listening, then I would like to add the capability of 
saving multiple sets of windowing preference sets to the Stata Wish list.

Roger


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