Re: Old word processors

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From: Peter Flass
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2018 23:51

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Andreas Kohlbach <a...@spamfence.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 07:15:01 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:
>> 
>> Gene Wirchenko <ge...@telus.net> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 16:38:49 -0700, Peter Flass
>>> <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> [snip]
>>> 
>>>> What's your distinction? I seem to recall that Wordstar wasn't WISIWIG. The
>>>> only difference between Wordstar and something like Script is what you use
>>>> for markup: control characters vs. dot-commands.
>>> 
>>> WordStar was WYSIWYG within the limits of a character-only
>>> terminal.
>> 
>> Fixed-width characters with no bold or italic. I think it used attributes
>> like underline and reverse video to indicate bf and ital.
> 
> WordStar produced bold and thelike. I am also quite sure you could tell
> it to use proportional. Or even had to tell it to *not* use proportional
> but fixed-width. Of course it's up to the printer whether it can produce
> them.

I was thinking of what you could be expect to be displayed on the screen.

-- 
Pete

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