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From: julian@osu-eddie.UUCP (Julian Gomez)
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Subject: Re: Re: suggestions for Macwrite and other w.p. programs
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Date: Sat, 12-Oct-85 12:34:39 EDT
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>      I agree that MacWrite badly needs a push/pop-ruler mechanism, but I
> thought it might be of general interest to know that MacWrite is already
> capable of doing indented paragraphs, a la .ip in -me.  If you push the
> little paragraph indentation marker in the ruler to the left of the left
> margin, the first line of the paragraph will have a tag indented to the
> left of the left margin.  A tab gets you back to the left margin to type
> the paragraph body.  If the tag is longer than the indentation, I think you
> have to use return and then a tab.

This is how they tell you to do it in the manual. The nice thing about
.ip in nroff -me is that it takes care of doing the line break if
necessary, instead of making the user worry about it (what are
computers for anyway?).  Actually, if you think about it, indented
paragraphs are a particular instance of the push/pop ruler problem.
-- 
"If Chaos himself sat umpire, what better could he do?"

	Julian "a tribble took it" Gomez
	Computer Graphics Research Group, The Ohio State University
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