Path: utzoo!attcan!lsuc!atha!auvax.AthabascaU.CA!kevinc
From: kevinc@cs.AthabascaU.CA (Kevin Crocker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: World's best word processor
Summary: Well, I use ...
Message-ID: <943@auvax.AthabascaU.CA>
Date: 30 Jun 89 04:36:51 GMT
References: <353@hal.UUCP> <45900246@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Athabasca U, Alberta, Canada
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In article <45900246@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>, mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
> 
> >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.
> 
> 
> Wow! You must have gone to one of those old-fashioned grade schools
> with lots of rote learning! 
> 
> 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.
> 
> Doug McDonald

nifty,  I use Lotus Manuscript: to start italics your type ctrl-i,
reasonably intuitive, and to get back out you type ctrl-i again.

This is even shorter and faster.  Of course there is a long way to do
it through menus etc, but I can't seem to remember how to do that right
now.

I must say that a lot of people seem to be using TeX.  Just what is so
great about it except that it is portable over a number of OS's.  It
looked like a modern troff to me but then what do I know.  I use
Manuscript because I usually, no make that never, do any fancy typeset
type work on anything except a pc.  Thus, for me, portability is a very
minor criteria.

Well, that's my two cents worth.

Kevin
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