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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2024 05:26:45 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 29 Sep 2024 04:26:09 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> On 2024-09-28, Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> I think still does. You wouldn’t want to print too long a name on a
>> check, for instance, just because your system allows it and some
>> literal clerk just types in what they see.
> 
> At a PPOE, my job title was "Programmer-Analyst".  When squashed into
> the 15-character field allocated for it in our payroll system, it became

With proportional fonts and a decent graphics/typography API, you can 
apply nonuniform scaling to the text--reduce the width without reducing 
the height. This gives you some leeway to squeeze in a little bit more 
text, rather than forcing hard truncation.