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From: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: World's best word processor
Message-ID: <5502@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 3 Jul 89 16:12:54 GMT
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Reply-To: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
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In article <22850@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> burleigh@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Frank Burleigh) writes:
>In article <22925@genrad.UUCP> slp@genrad.genrad.COM (Stephen L. Peters) writes:

>>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

>actually, if you have an enhanced keyboard and use the keyboard mapping
>for it (enhanced.wpk), shift-f11 italicizes the currently blosked text.
>it should also turn italics on and off without blocking on.

Another thing to notice that italics (as well as bold, underlined, and
various other attributes) are "paired", in that if you issue the italic
command, an italic-on code is placed before the cursor and an italic-off code
is placed after the cursor.  This means that you don't have to issue
the italic command at the end of your italicized characters -- just hit the
right arrow key!

So, with either the 101 key keyboard, or using macros to assign ALT-i we
get:

Italics on -- Shifted character
Italics off -- Unshifted character

I think you would find it hard to get simpler than that.

Tom Almy
toma@tekgvs.labs.tek.com
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