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Article #621280Re: Old word processors
From: Carlos E.R.
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 05:09
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 05:09
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On 2018-03-18 22:09, Andreas Kohlbach 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 remember trying proportional but not what word processor it was; probably WordStar. The problem was that the idea the computer had about the exact size of the words was not the same as the printer had, so that the result was not reliable. I don't remember if WP 5.1 got it right or not (on my 9 pin pin printer). -- Cheers, Carlos.
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