Re: OT: Rant
On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 12:33:21 -0600
Kent West <westk@nicanor.acu.edu> 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.
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