On Thu, 22 Dec 2022, at 20:58, Bob Bridges wrote: > But long ago > I took up the habit of teaching each new PC to default to WordPad for .rtf > documents, and that's what I use to write one- or two-page documentation on > simple commands and utilities.
It's a while since I last used Wordpad, but one problem I had was that any change one made to its options affected any document subsequently edited/viewed with it. Options were not stored with the document. For anything complex I use a DTP program that originated on RISC OS (the OS used by the successors to the BBC Microcomputers) - named Ovation and a successor, Ovation Pro. That was eventually ported to Windows. It has been extended, as it supports "applets" written in a subset of C. It can save files in only two formats, a binary one, and a plain text one. As a matter of course I always save in both formats, so that if some sort of corruption breaks the binary file I can still use the other. Cunning people have been known to write code to generate or adjust the plain text form. It really IS a text & graphics layout program more than a word-processer, though. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
