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- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 92 09:10:00 EET
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- From: "J-P Takala, PL35 00931 HKi, 3432619" <JTAKALA@FINUHA>
- Subject: orbis, desqview
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- Thanks to Lee Komito and Michael Jasper for their information that
- the other Orbis formats except for the first two
- won't/aren't_even_supposed to work for a whiiile.
- Makes a stand alone text base more and more tempting...
- However, reading around different help screens, I
- found a very attractive feature that restored part of my faith
- in this complicated love affair. If you press alt-?, the word
- your cursor is on becomes the search string for an immediate
- look up in Orbis. Now that is very interesting. This feature also,
- incidentally, seems to solve part of the problem of not being able
- to enter any non-English letters in the Orbis search window. Alt-?
- would pick them up. It even accepted a "*" for a wildcard (you cannot
- do practically any searches in Finnish without wildcards).
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- About Desqview. I never encountered any problem with CS-2 underlining.
- However, there have been two irritating problems inside Desqview
- that I might tell about. Defining a word with C-ScrollLock
- invariably defined also the following word, upon moving the cursor.
- However, doing the same with C-F12 worked just fine. Funny,
- the definitions in NB.KBD are just the same. Maybe it is a peculiarity
- of the way keyboards are around these parts. I came upon the
- solution mentioned just after receiving NB4 and founding out,
- to my initial disappointment, that the C-ScrL thing persisted.
- The other problem is more sneaky, I don't know a reliable way to
- reproduce it and haven't yet come upon it in NB4 (it seems to
- require real hard work with long manuscripts to appear, not
- just fiddling around), but I suspect it might be there, since the
- other problem persisted. It is that after deleting a word, or maybe
- several words, with C-Del, the next cursor movement command deletes
- the NEXT (usually important, why would have I decided to leave it
- otherwise?) word in line. Sometimes I've caught it in the act,
- sometimes there just is an otherwise inexplicable void in the
- printout.
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- Jukka-Pekka Takala
- Helsinki, Finland
- internet: JTAKALA@cc.Helsinki.Fi
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