Where do I put the backslash sequences to create a right margin of 4000 twips?

I seem to have figured this out by a lot of error and trial:

sub format_texts {
  use strict;
  use 5.010;
  use RTF::Writer;

  my ( $rvars, $reftext1 ) = @_;
  my %vars  = %$rvars;
  my $text1 = $$reftext1;

  my $rtf = RTF::Writer->new_to_file( $vars{word} );
  $rtf->prolog( 'title' => "List of fears", );
  $rtf->number_pages;
  $rtf->paragraph(\'\qc\f0\fs120\b ', "Fears");
  $rtf->paragraph(\'\ri3000\li-500\f0\fs30\b0\ql',$text1);
  $rtf->close;

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This creates a centered, oversized headline and then sets a left indent of negative 500 twips (moving it left a centimeter or so), and a right indent of 3000 twips, which, with the rather large default margins creates the space on the right side of the page that I wanted. Screenshot of output on Tinypic

I was wrong to expect the title to print out: it's not supposed to. I was also wrong that the page number didn't print out. The reference that got me over the hump on rtf syntax was Sean Burke's summary of rtf syntax . Also informative was MS specification of rtf on sourceforge

Still puzzled why "Fear of" doesn't get inserted with this substitution:

  for (@fears) {
    s/\s+$/ /;
    $_ = lc($_);
    s/^(\d+\. )(.) /$1 Fear of $2/;
  }

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In reply to Re^3: combining lists, formatting and printing on windows by Aldebaran
in thread combining lists, formatting and printing on windows by Aldebaran

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