From: marcov@stack.nl   
      
   On 2006-04-12, Klaus Jorgensen  wrote:   
   > I'm no expert in proportional fonts, but are you telling me that   
   > printing a string that is prefixed with a given number of space   
   > characters, does not always start at the same position?   
   >   
   > Will the printer print the xxx's on a different position if printed as   
   > follows:   
   > writeln(space(30),'xxx iiiiiiii');   
   > writeln(space(30),'xxx mmmmmmmm');   
      
   No, but the "iiii" and "mmm" section have different lengths, and   
      
     writeln('i',space(30),'xxx iiiiiiii');   
     writeln('w',space(30),'xxx mmmmmmmm');   
      
   typically goes wrong.   
      
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