On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 12:33:21 -0600 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ross Burton wrote: > > > On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 15:26, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > > >>On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 04:55:05PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > >> > >>>And being able to have Left Justified, Center Justified, and Right > >>>Justified text all on the same line, so you don't have to throw in a > >>>bunch of spaces to get everything to (maybe) line up. > >>> > >>For those who don't grok this, look at the top of any man page: > >> > >>man(1) Manual pager utils man(1) > >> > > > > That can be done with a center tab and a right-aligned tab. > > > > Ross > > > > Yes, but then you have to go tweaking the tab settings, and then setting > them back to normal afterward. This method works, but WP's was simpler. I beg to disagree with the crowd. Its features aside, WP must be one of the most vicious pieces of software I've handled, next perhaps only to vi(cious ;8-). I'm not particularly demanding WRT ease of use: just something you can start and exit without reading the manual. (I can figure out the rest.) The Gold Standard (tm) for me has always been WordStar (around versions 4 or 5), probably the most user-friendly pure DOS program ever coded. The level of control you want for your documents is better served by a dedicated DTP program like Ventura. The DOS version (running IIRC a run-time version of the GEM desktop environment) was fast, pretty fast even when run on an ancient XT. But I share the WP crowd's lament about their favorite word processor. Like WP, Ventura was bought out by Corel.
