[ale] Holy War! Holy War! Re: RTF

[Jim Kinney]

I _LIKED_ Display Codes. Sometimes it was the best way to clean up an errant
style change causing funkiness on print. Wish it was possible to do that on
OOo.

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:53 AM, John Mills <johnmills at speakeasy.net>wrote:

> Minority of one here.
>
> I started using MsWord with v-3 in roughly 1984. My significant driver was
> Word's good handling for printers available where I worked, especially an
> Apple laser printer. I then also found Word's models of document structure
> and organization far better matched to my writing approach than those of
> WordPerfect. (I can't give OpenOffice very high marks on this yet, either,
> but I do still have some hope.)
>
> Both Word (with RTF) and WordPerfect (whatever) used markup languages that
> were essentially embedded text, but Word used a bit of encryption to
> obfuscate things. (What an original thought!)
>
> I always thought it clear evidence of poor design that WordPerfect users
> spent so much time staring at the "Display Codes" screen; you could see
> that on consoles as you walked from office to office down the hall.
> (Remember having _offices_?)
>
> As to quality -- well, there are still even some hard-core Word*Star users
> out there! Go figure!!
>
> Flame on -- it's the "silly season".
>
>  - Mills
>
> On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, Jeff Lightner wrote:
>
> > What crap!
>
> > MS Word took off for one reason - They gave it away along with Excel and
> > Access because the people PAYING for software new Word sucked compared
> > to WordPerfect and Excel sucked compared to Lotus 123.   Not only did
> > they give it away - they forced PC manufacturers to bundle in on new PCs
> > with the threat of NOT being allowed to include DOS/Windows.   Once MS
> > Office became the defacto standard they quit giving it away.
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