Subject: [WSFA] Re: Geeky humor...
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:46:38 -0500
From: "Lawhorn, William - BLS" <Lawhorn.William at bls.gov>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

GRRM... Writing computer hooked to internet.  None of his fans would
ever try to hack his system to get a hint of things to come...

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Walsh [mailto:MJW at press.jhu.edu]=20
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 11:42 AM
To: WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Geeky humor...

> dicconf at radix.net 1/19/2007 11:31:15 AM >>>
>
>On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, Michael Walsh wrote:
>
>>> ejablow at cox.net 1/18/2007 8:41:09 PM >>>
>
>>> If you want to do any scientific publishing, or linguistic critical

>>> edition publishing, you really don't have any choices other than=20
>TeX=20
>>> and its children. Believe me, graphical equation editors are worse

>than=20
>>> useless.
>>
>> Well, since I don't, I'm quite happy with WordPerfect as my=20
>electronic=20
>> typewriter.
>
>Yay!  Another WordPerfect user!
>(I bet my version is older than your version.)

Release version 8.   Two words: "Reveal Codes".

The Press primarily uses Word, but for various reasons we're still
holding onto WP.

George R R Martin uses WordStar 4.0 on a DOS machine.  Which is not
connected to the 'net.  For email & the like, he uses a different
machine.

mjw