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From: knuutila@tucos.UUCP (Timo Knuutila)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: World's best wordprocessor
Message-ID: <911@tucos.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jun 89 10:01:24 GMT
Organization: University of Turku, Finland
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Someone told about his/her feelings about the ease of using WP:

>>For your information: i like wordperfect, and i never use the template at 
>>all. If you use that you're bound to lose a lot of time. I don't have to 
>>look up what italics is, i just hit ctrl-f8 2 4, and it's there.

Doug McDonald (mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu) replied:

>I use TeX; to start italics you type   {\em    , where the em stands
>for emphasized. That is admittedly one more keystroke, but, to get back
>out, you just type  }  , which is faster.

Well, well. Seems quite straightforward. I use ChiWriter, and the very
complicated keystroke sequence to get the italics is F3 (you can save up to
20 different fonts behind F1-F10 & Shift-F1-Shift-F10). 

I have used ChiWriter for about 3 years now (latest version is 3.03) and
in my opinion it beats WP (and any other) 6-0. Before you start throwing
the stones, please read the article from the latest Byte (# July/89, p. 92).