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From: roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Wrapping Text completly around graphic in WORDPERFECT (how?)
Keywords: text box, no text on sides.
Message-ID: <82ZkP1w163w@cybrspc>
Date: 16 Sep 90 07:59:42 GMT
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Organization: Villa CyberSpace, Minneapolis, MN
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mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:

> gail@wet.UUCP (Gail Gurman) writes:
> > I now what you want to do . . . something like this:
> >         _____
> > This is |   | a test.
> > This is |___| another test.
> 
> You can't do this because it's extremely bad typographic design.

No, you can't do this because WordPerfect doesn't allow it. Typographic
design has nothing to do with the capabilities of a program.

> When you're reading something, it's very inconvenient for your eye to have
> to stop in the middle of a sentence and pick up again several inches
> to the right.

I won't argue that point, but I do want to remind you of the
time-honored philosophy that has guided Unix design... preventing people
from doing stupid things will also prevent them from doing clever
things.  I can't think of an application that would be served by the
above-mentioned design, but that doesn't mean that none exists.  I think
this restriction in WordPerfect is as cavalier as Ventura Publisher's
not allowing text-tag changes in mid-paragraph. (and _that_ is something
I _do_ want to do sometimes)

> If you want to wrap text around a graphic, it should be
> done like this: [example deleted]

Your example is right on the money, Mark... but WP should still let you
format any way you want to, even if it _is_ "incorrect".
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