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From: cck@deneb.ucdavis.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth)
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Subject: Re: WYSIWYG flamage
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Date: 29 Jul 89 07:34:43 GMT
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In article <9102@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
>In article <26726@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth) writes:
>

>>(To forestall the argument that only a hacker would appreciate
>>vi/nroff, I would note that I teach modern Japanese history.)
>
>Actually, I like vi and wish the PC programs had real regex support,
>but things like redline and strikeout support are more practical
>(where the codes and/or affected text can be deleted in one command).
>BTW, you might like the 1500 character character set that WP 5.0 uses.

1500 characters doesn't amount to diddly squat as far as Japanese goes.
My Japanese word processor has 6000 plus, and that still doesn't give
me full coverage.  I'm saving my pennies for a Sony Work Station with
kanji vi and troff.

I'm still unconvinced about the wonders of WP 5.0.  One of my colleagues
got it for his wife because she needed full Greek (not mathematicians
Greek - full modern and classical.)  It does it.  Sort of.  But it took
him weeks on the phone to find out what he needed in the way of hardware
to support it.  It then took me three hours to figure out what the mushed
mouth manual was trying to say to make the transition between roman and
Greek scripts.

My $700 NEC word processor (total price including 24 dot matrix printer
and disk drive) can do more typographical things with 6000+ characters
(it has stroked fonts) for Japanese (and English, and Russian, etc.)
than WP does with English....

Just out of curiosity.  Is there any logical pattern to WPs use of
function keys?  I go buggy trying to remember whether its alt/ctrl/shift
or whatever....