atw: Re: changing to Wordperfect

The feature of which you write was called Reveal Codes, Bob T.

Just found and checked my original WordPerfect for the Amiga box,
grabbed the Quick Reference card and discovered that the Reveal Codes
command was indeed Alt+F3. HTH.

Word can reveal codes in line with Alt+F9 on the fly (same as using Tools >
Options > View tab > select Field codes > click OK).

Just checked and Word 9 (AKA 2000) cannot reveal its codes in only one
pane of a split window display for the one document.  The code reveal
displays in both.

You could, however, make a copy of a file and open the master and it's copy,
horizontally tiling the windows and reveal the codes of the copy in the
lower window, but there would be no interaction between the two as you
make changes.

Hey, I even used WordPerfect for VAX on a VT320 green-screen video
terminal (and an amber screen one) in which the "graphical" print preview
was like looking with your face pressed up against a fly screen.  Lovely!

WordPerfect for the Amiga (1987) was based around numbers of lines
rather than physical page sizes and always had trouble with using Metric,
as it was built around US Imperial paper sizes.

I used to think it was absolutely horrid until I regularly used the MS-DOS
and VAX versions and discovered that those enabled no multitasking and
prevented the use of multiple command line shells.

I recall that WordPerfect for the Amiga cost about $400.00 in 1987 (a lot
of money now and absolutely heaps then, when our Aussie Dollar was worth
more than the US one around that time) and that nobody in the big software
shop that I went to would let me try it before I bought it.  So I walked out
and, the next week drove to a friend's Amiga shop in Bayswater and got it
for $150.00.  Caveat emptor. (Let the buyer beware.)

Just two years earlier, it was less expensive to buy a BMW R65LS
motorcycle (on the road with panniers and insurance) than a genuine
IBM AT PC.  Guess which one I bought.  ;-)

Cheers,

Michael Granat
Write Ideas

At 10:43 1/3/2005, you wrote:
>I used WordPerfect many years back - about 13 years - as a DOS version. It
>worked well, but had a few bugs, and using Ctrl+ALT + shift + something
>drove me mad.
>Numbering of lists and paragraphs worked beautifully, as did automatic
>indenting.
>The great feature was ??? mode (I forget the name).  This allowed you to
>see the codes, tags and mechanics of the mark-up.  Rather like seeing the
>raw HTML  code behind the WYSIWYG version.  And you could have a split
>screen, with the WYSIWYG at the top and the tags below.  So easy to find a
>tag that started in the wrong place.
>Then they moved to Windows.  I reckon that the programmers did not really
>understand the windows platform.  This resulted in a clumsy interface.
>
>Since then I haven't used it.
>___________
>Bob Trussler
>Technical Writer,  FAO
>phones 6244 6298  and  0418 661 462

Michael E. Granat
(QGTWD) (FOTROTWYB!)
T/as Write Ideas
E-mail: mailto:writeideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Web: <http://home.pacific.net.au/~megranat/>
Without Prejudice.
E&OE. 

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