To print small tables left-justified on the page, type:

in the font file.

Because the laser printer uses proportionally-spaced fonts and prints in a smaller type size than a line printer, tables which would normally fill a page of line printer paper will only partially fill the page when the table is laser printed. When the column headings are defined on g statements and the table is narrower than the page width, Quantum will print it centrally in the width of the page. If you want the table to be left-justified on the page, enter the command:

in the font file containing the font definitions.

You can also scale the table as a whole up to a larger type size by defining smaller values for pagwid= and paglen= on the a statement. For example, when printed using the default type size, the sample table occupies half a page. The sample has been scaled to fill the whole page by defining the page to be just a little larger than the table itself: that is, pagwid=115; paglen=50.

If you are printing more than one table, take the width of the widest table and the length of the longest one as guidelines for the overall length and width required. Since it is not possible to gauge exactly how many lines the table occupies when it is laser printed, it is best to increase your line counts by a small amount as in the example above.