Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!NIEHS.BITNET!ALBRO From: ALBRO@NIEHS.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Apple Technotes Message-ID: <8910042114.aa06338@ADM.BRL.MIL> Date: 4 Oct 89 16:37:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 40 From: IN%"Info-Apple@BRL.MIL" 4-OCT-1989 00:05:06.83 To: Phil Albro CC: Subj: Re: Apple Technotes >In article <8910021343.aa00981@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> ALBRO@NIEHS.BITNET writes: >>The original question was concerned with the delays in releasing the AppleII >>technotes, and now the discussion has shifted to the AppleII word processor >>format. Regardless of the format, the delay would be the same. If it is >>_necessary_ to write Apple II technotes on a Mac (Why??), why can't you use >>a Mac wordprocessor that has a 'Print to ASCII File on Disk' option?? That >>should save two weeks. So you would have to skip the pictures - you're doing >>that now anyway. >Show me a solid word processor on the Apple II that can do what most of the >high-end word processors on the Mac do, at the same speed or better, dealing >with the graphics and volume we do and I would consider using it. Because >no such beast exists (my opinion here) the work is done on a Mac (which also >provides consistency between the two platforms). >We do print to a TEXT file, but that doesn't take care of non-printable >characters or formatting for a nice format on the Apple II. This has to be >done with a combination of scripts and hand tweaking. As for the graphics, >I beg to differ. You will find that ALL Apple II Notes contain the graphics >converted to ASCII format. - Mark B. Johnson AppleLink: mjohnson Developer Technical Support domain: mjohnson@Apple.com Apple Computer, Inc. UUCP: {amdahl,decwrl,sun,unisoft}!apple!mjohnson It sounds like you SAVE to a text file. If you PRINT to one, there aren't any unprintable characters in there, and tabs are expanded with spaces, retaining the formatting. You may differ, but I have a whole bunch of Apple II tech notes marked something to the effect "Figures deleted - available in MacDraw format separately". - Phil Albro- ALBRO@NIEHS.BITNET