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Article #621253Re: Old word processors
From: J. Clarke
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 21:06
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 21:06
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On Sat, 17 Mar 2018 17:04:19 -0400, Andreas Kohlbach <a...@spamfence.net> wrote: >On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 18:35:54 -0600, Grant Taylor wrote: >> >> On 03/16/2018 02:27 PM, Andreas Kohlbach wrote: >> >>> By word processor I do not mean any text editor. A word processor >>> should at least be able to wrap a word into the next line if it >>> didn't fit into the current line. And had some markup for defining a >>> bold or italic character and sub- and superscript. >> >> I don't know how advanced they were, but they are very likely on your >> scale. They might (I don't know) not have been able to manage bold / >> italic / other fonts. But that was very likely a limitation of the >> printing technology (used in conjunction with the systems) of the time >> (as opposed to what was available). > >WordStar, one of the first word processors, did support font weight (like >bold or italics). Whether a printer can then print that has nothing to do >with a word processor. If you used a daisy-wheel printer you were usually >out of luck. Matrix printers then could, so did laser printers. Daisies could often do bold the same way a typewritter does--offset a little to one side and restrike. Italic not so much.
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