Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:54:02 -0500
From: Eva Whitley <eva.whitley at gmail.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Geeky humor...
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Michael Walsh wrote:
>>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
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>>TeX
>>
>>>>and its children. Believe me, graphical equation editors are worse
>
>>than
>>
>>>>useless.
>>>
>>>Well, since I don't, I'm quite happy with WordPerfect as my
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>>electronic
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>>>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
>

There's a whole slew of "Show..." commands in Word 2007 to reveal all
sorts of things. In earlier versions of Word, there's a triple A icon
that shows the coding. Also, Format>Paragraph reveals many useful things
like spacing, keep with next, widow/orphan settings, etc.

Can I call you up for advice next week when I have to change a whole
bunch of Word Perfect docs into Framemaker? --Eva