Re: Greek (and WordPerfect) (was Interface font)

On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Andy Korvemaker wrote:

>
> On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 19:53:53 -0600, "Michael Ward" said:
>> I second that. I still use WP 5.1 sometimes, because (to my knowledge)
>> it is still the only word processor with a full and *correct* ancient
>> Greek font, *including* accents and breathings.
>
> My Greek usage has been fairly limited,

Mine too, but I was under the impression that ancient Greek didn't have
accents at all and the accents and stuff didn't come around until church
Greek.

Anyway, after being up all night I finally got a template that sort of would
work for short-story manusripts, but had to do a lot of editing of templates
in a trusty flat-ASCII editor. Now I discover that "Save as Word" actually
results in some kind of rtf document, which might as well be ancient Greek
to Word. So, I'm kind of stymied.

I'm wondering if anyone has ever thought of a "work just like a typewriter"
mode. A book manuscript template would take at least three different kinds
of headers, and I am just guess, but I bet pagination wouldn't really work
properly in a book-length manuscript, so I'm thinking "Gee, I wish I still
had a typewriter." I'm not sure I really mean that. But battling the
formating is really tiresome. After all, the work should go into
*production*, and you should have to spend several nights and day on
*configuration*.

Set the margins (which can be defeated with back tabs and space ups when
necessary. Set the line spacing. And type. Wouldn't that be wonderful!
If you need a header, space up into the top margin, back tab, and type it!
Don't spend time trying to force it in some preconceive XML schema that was
devised by someone who has never written "cat" even when spotted the c and
the a.

Imagine a world in which software did what people needed instead of trying
to convince people to need what the software can do!

"You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one."
              --John Lennon

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