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Article #90Re: Text Movement Problems....
From: David Fickes
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1989 00:34
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1989 00:34
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In article <2677@trantor.harris-atd.com> chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano) writes: > It isn't clear to me that the authors need any formatting capabilities >at their disposal. They should just be pouring text into predefined formats, >so why don't they just send in ASCII? If there are special formatting needs, >they could be handled outside the normal editorial loop. Thats what I said but unfortunately, this thing called Unix has conventions and they don't teach those conventions in Art Director's school. Everyone seems to agree that our authors know the conventions and it is silly to throw them away in the translation. I'm simply trying to preserve certain font/text changes... nothing major. But it HAS TO (SHOULD) be part of the normal editorial loop. -d -- David K. Fickes dfickes@expert.com Sun Expert Magazine uunet!expert!dfickes 1330 Beacon Street (617) 739-7001 Brookline, MA 02146 FAX: (617) 739-7003
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ames!henry.jpl.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ucla-cs!uci-ics!zardoz!tgate!ka3ovk!drilex!axiom!linus!alliant!merk!xylogics!expert.com!dfickes From: dfickes@expert.com (David Fickes) Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop Subject: Re: Text Movement Problems.... Message-ID: <1989Sep14.003446.3022@expert.com> Date: 14 Sep 89 00:34:46 GMT References: <1989Sep9.020234.14411@expert.com> <2677@trantor.harris-atd.com> Reply-To: dfickes@goudy.UUCP (David Fickes) Organization: Sun Expert Magazine - Brookline, MA Lines: 19