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Anybody remeber the dos version of Wordperfect 5 or 5.5? It had a mode, AFAIK triggered by pressing F11 or was it F12 where every formatting operation like inse
by jhoechtl 7y ago
Anybody remeber the dos version of Wordperfect 5 or 5.5? It had a mode, AFAIK triggered by pressing F11 or was it F12 where every formatting operation like inserting a new page, bold or italics was displayed as a control sequence. Wordperfect didn't care if you five times marked a text as bold and required you to "unbold" five times to continue writing in regular font.
I used to be a wizzard operating in this mode and many of my school-mates reached out for me to get their homework assignment properly formatted.
Somehow this WP5.5 format reminds me of that Markdown extension. Thankfully markdown is much richer in semantics.
- mmastrac 7y ago"Reveal Codes" IIRC.
- samatman 7y agoMy mother published 5 books with WordPerfect and adamantly refused to learn any desktop publishing system that didn't have Reveal Codes. When she says she doesn't understand what I do for a living, I tell her that I work with Reveal Codes, all day. It's more right than wrong.