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Date: 8 Jun 91 02:20:42 GMT
Organization: (n.) to be organized.  But that's not important right now.
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Category 1,  Topic 8
Message 65        Fri Jun 07, 1991
B.SUTTON1 [Brian]            at 18:59 EDT
 
Gene, my word processing is based on Brodie's QTF (rather loosely), but it
includes things like micro-justification, accessing all of the potentials of
my epson-compatible printers (citizen & star nx1000) to do things like double
& quad sized text.  It also gives us
 full control over line spacing, proportional printing and type styles.

I've automated things like headers, footers, indexes, tables of contents, etc.
I don't normally use those things on a day-to-day basis, but they've come in
handy from time to time.

Probably the reason I use it the most (as opposed to other, more sophisticated
programs) is because:

1.  It's real quick.
 2.  We use a lot of pre-printed forms and it's a snap to have it fill in the
blanks; i.e.,

    name[ John Doe]  date[ June 3, 1991] age[ 55] history[ ... ]

I use screen 1 to define the relevant commands in a particular file. My
secretary has no problem running the program or using the full- screen editor
I wrote for it.

Back in the dark ages when I was using cp/m (a couple months ago)
 I would send the document to a disk file to run a spelling checker on
 it before printing.  I'm sure it's simple to do in DOS, so I'll probably add
that in soon.

Another thing I like about it is that I can have one big file called
"reports.txt" to store the source on.  Then, and INDex will quickly help me
find any previous report that was written (obviously, they're stored in order
by date).  At the end of the year, I archive each text file for the year.



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