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From: emigh@ncsugn.ncsu.edu (Ted H. Emigh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Bug (Feature) in WordStar 2000 Release 3
Message-ID: <3142@ncsugn.ncsu.edu>
Date: 22 Mar 88 20:30:32 GMT
Reply-To: emigh@ncsugn.UUCP (Ted H. Emigh)
Organization: Genetics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
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I have run across the following "feature" in WordStar 2000 Release 3.
The manner of changing a printer from text to NLQ was changed to ^PX
(eXtra printer features) in this release.  Unfortunately, the manner that
^PX features are used has changed.  If you put [NLQ] at the front of
your document, then print the document, all will work as expected.  However,
if you put [NLQ] at the front of the document, then print starting at page
2, then the printing will be in text quality.  Apparently, the [NLQ] (and
presumably all the ^PX options) are only sent to the printer when the page
is printed -- not at all what should be done!!  One way to get around this
is to define a header with [NLQ] in the header -- even if that is all that
is in the header.  Of course, this doesn't make it easy to change these
things in the middle of the document -- but even that is somewhat possible.

I have been using WS 2000, REL 3 for a couple of months.  In many respects
it has improved WS 2000, but there are some ways that it has harmed WS 2000.
I refuse to get into a Word Processing WAR, but I will put down my impressions
of WS 2000, REL 3 if there is any interest.

-- 
Ted H. Emigh, Dept. Genetics and Statistics, NCSU, Raleigh, NC
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