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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: WYSIWYG flamage
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Date: 1 Aug 89 03:29:25 GMT
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In article <4993@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> cck@deneb.ucdavis.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth) writes:

>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....

Somehow this doesn't surprise me... What does the N in NEC stand for?
The graphics capability of WP can help out, though.  If you can coax
some other program to make a figure using HPGL plotting or several
other formats, WP can convert it to a form that it can scale and
position.

>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....

No, but I've never seen an editor that had a logical pattern of commands,
especially ones that use function keys.  There is a decent built-in help
command, though, so you only have to remember F3.  Also, you can re-map
the commands if you like.

Les Mikesell