I used to call it Word Pervert before I was forced to use m$ orifice. I tend to use lists a lot, and what happens when you try to copy items from one list to another is not pretty. Reveal mode would at least have given me an easy way to clean up the mess. These days, if I have to copy list items I copy them to a text window first, copy the text and then re-mark the text as list items. It was so much easier with DCF and BM.
Fortunately, at home I can use (Open|Libre)Office, but I'd still like to have a good markup language. If someone took DocBook as a base and extended the tag set to the level of BookManager on an OS I use, I'd download or buy it in a heartbeat. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Bob Bridges [robhbrid...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2020 11:08 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Quote style (was: ... Passive FTP ... ) Old WP users, among whom I count myself, mourn the loss of reveal-codes mode. When my company switched from WP to Word (which I still think was largely my fault), I judged that Word was easier to use for the easy things - italics and bold at keystroke, for instance - but harder to control for the more advanced things. I've figured out headers/footers, for example, footnotes, even indices and ToCs. But I struggle with them still. WP was better in that regard, in my opinion. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. -Robert Wilensky, ILP 1996 */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2020 21:29 The problem that I have with m$ is not that they have too many options but that they either don't have the options I need or they cleverly hide them. I'm forced to use office365 on this e-mail account, and if there are options to support, e.g., showing headers with the message body, correct quoting, I haven't found them. Then there's word- where is reveal mode? ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Bob Bridges [robhbrid...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2020 9:13 PM I'm kind of rabid about including options in the programs I write, pretty much any option I can think might be useful if it isn't too hard to write in. How can ~I~ know what the user will find useful? So if I can ask, that's great, but sometimes it's not possible. Maybe Microsoft overdoes it a little; there are so many it's sometimes hard to find the one I want. But I'd rather have that problem than the opposite one. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
