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From: slp@genrad.uucp (Stephen L. Peters)
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Subject: Re: World's best word processor
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Date: 30 Jun 89 18:33:50 GMT
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In article <943@auvax.AthabascaU.CA> kevinc@cs.AthabascaU.CA (Kevin Crocker) writes:
>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.

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

Sigh.  I might as well leap boldly into the fray.

As long as we're setting how you start italics as the mark of the
"World's best word procesor," I might as well remark that if your
processor has some form of macro, you can cut your keystrokes down
immensely.

I use WP, and though I can't for the life of me figure out why there
isn't a function key assigned to "Italics," I most certainly am NOT
going to type Ctrl-F8 2 4.  I set up the Alt-i macro, and it works for
me.  Better than {\em...} (which by the way, who out there who doesn't
know TeX thinks that "emphasized" is a good description for italics?
Sounds like it should be bold or shadow), better than the original
command for WP, and as good as the Manuscript combo above.

Disclaimer:  I don't listen to anyone else, so I have to use my own
opinions.

			Stephen Peters
			(please send mail to portnoy@athena.mit.edu)