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- From: dmeyer@tiac.net (David Meyer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: FinalWriter V.401 Fonts?
- Date: 29 Jan 1996 18:59:44 GMT
- Organization: The Internet Access Company
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- Brian Mcewen (i9566249@unicorn.it.wsu.edu) wrote:
- : Mike Hartigan (hartigan@flowbee.interaccess.com) wrote:
- :
- : : There are pre-defined buttons that you can add to your button bar that
- : : select super/sub/normal. Then all you would have to do is press the
- : : superscript button, type your character, press the normal button and
- : : proceed (RTFM).
- :
- : You mean as per page 3-12 of the FM? Sorry, there's no
- : super/sub/normal Arexx macros prebuilt. You'd think there would be. You
- : get to write your own. . .<snip>
-
- Sorry, but you must be wrong. I have those buttons on my system
- and wouldn't know an ARexx macro unless it were properly introduced to
- me. I _couldn't_ have coded it myself and I've had it longer than I've
- had access to net files. Ergo, it came from Softwood.
-
- : them in future upgrades ( unless they have a darn decent RTF
- : import/export, then I'll overlook a lot of other things, to be able to
- : read work done on 99% of the worlds computers).
-
- !!! RED HERRING ALERT !!!
- Then you will need to buy another computer. Or two. Fewer than
- 90% of the world's Personal Computers are PClones and not all of those
- use Windows and not all of those use Word. Which brings up another, and a
- very important, point: RTF is not a native format on ANY of the more
- popular word processors. Being able to read/write RTF files gives you
- _no_ advantage when trying to read files not intentionally saved in that
- format - something only a small minority of computer users are even aware
- is possible!
-