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Unfortuneately, yes, my company uses Word(Worthless) for large documents | 174 comments | Create New Account
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Fuzzy-headed LO....
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 08 2013 @ 02:09 PM EDT
Wol:

That's really fuzzy-headed...not having a way to look at the underlying
markup/structure to tell you why the WYSIWOGGLE just WON'T do what you
ask...especially helpful with complex lists and equations.

But we don't really do anything anywhere as complicated as EQUATIONS!

(Christenson)

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Unfortuneately, yes, my company uses Word(Worthless) for large documents
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 08 2013 @ 05:17 PM EDT

I've used two styles of "mark-up" in word processors.

  • One used "escape" sequences initiated by a tilde (~) character, eg ~ul (underline on), ~uw (underline words on), ~ux (underline off) typed into the text and stored data in 7 bit ASCII - it was not WYSIWYG, but at the press of a button, it could be displayed how it would print with the escape sequences interpreted.
  • The other used attribute bits attached to each character (effectively using a 16 bit ASCII character - one byte the character, the other the attributes).
WP with its show codes seems like it could be similar to the first system mentioned above (except that it displayed in WYSIWYG mode all the time) whereby there are "escape" sequences (codes) inserted into the text to change attributes (at the press of a function key as opposed to being typed); Word could well be in the style of the second with attribute bits attached to each character and so show codes may not really be an option.

cm

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