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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: World's best word processor
Message-ID: <8851@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 4 Jul 89 03:39:17 GMT
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Reply-To: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
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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
>going to type Ctrl-F8 2 4.  I set up the Alt-i macro, and it works for
>me.  Better than {\em...}

An obvious point, I suppose, but if your editor allows macros and you
are inclined to use them, then it really doesn't matter if the "real"
commands were Ctrl-F8 2 4 or {\em...}.
What might matter to some people is that WP, being semi-wysiwyg, will
use a different display mode (usually color) to indicate the change
and recalculate the soft word-wrap on the screen according to the new
character widths. 

Les Mikesell