Re: A92: word processor

To: assembly-92@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: A92: word processor
From: TurboSoft@aol.com
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 16:05:38 EST
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In a message dated 11/4/98 2:36:14 PM Eastern Standard Time, talpa@mip.ou.dk
writes:

> I'd say go for B/W, gray scale is only good for a GUI like the one found in
>  Word
>  and WordPerfect, but a calc should not have this... (the screen is small
>  enough
>  already) things like bold and italics would be more usefull.

Why should it not have it?  As long as it looks good and works nice it might
as well.
Bold and italics would be just as important as grey-4.

>  Besides that don't use you own format keep it ascii (ok some control codes 
> for
>  bold and stuff like that, but if someone don't use them the output should
be
>  plain ascii)

you could format the word file to be a text var. on the calc.  Then if the
text was supposed to be in bold or something then it would look like this:
 :This is normal text.
 :This would be bold text
 :<N>This is normal text again.

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Re: A92: word processor

From: "David Kühling" <dkuehlin@hell1og.be.schule.de>