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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news-xfer.netaxs.com!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!ddsw1!not-for-mail From: les@MCS.COM (Leslie Mikesell) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Betting on Unix Date: 3 Mar 1997 15:35:51 -0600 Organization: /usr/lib/news/organi[sz]ation Lines: 30 Message-ID: <5ffg7n$c69$1@Mars.mcs.net> References: <5d3sr2$44n@nntp1.best.com> <5ef5c8$rgs@arktur.rz.uni-ulm.de> <5f6fhq$el0@faculty.ed.umuc.edu> <5f9oko$l7f@web.nmti.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mars.mcs.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:162414 comp.os.linux.networking:70663 comp.os.linux.setup:100675 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6178 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2697 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:55468 comp.os.os2.advocacy:271226 In article <5f9oko$l7f@web.nmti.com>, Peter da Silva <peter@nmti.com> wrote: >In article <5f6fhq$el0@faculty.ed.umuc.edu>, >Robb Shecter <rshecter@faculty.ed.umuc.edu> wrote: >> After all, these editors are the means, not the end. They should be >> blindingly easy to use, like a Windows program. Why do I say that? Because >> I know how to change the Paragraph xyz setting in MS Word 2.0: You go to >> the Format Paragraph menu and it'll be there. If not, then you can't >> change it. > >OK, now how do you indent a group of paragraphs in MS-WORD? Once you start >trying to do anything globally in MS-WORD it's *extremely* finicky, because >tags (state changes) don't nest the way the way they do in just about every >other markup language (TeX, SGML, Word Perfect, even to a certain extent >old creaky troff). If you mean a series of paragraphs that are each indented a bit more than the provious one, I'm not sure if there is a way that will still work if you move things around. Word has different concepts about parts of documents that make it different from programs that just respond to formatting codes as they hit them. What I've usually done is create a style for each paragraph type/level, generally by making one look right and then using the style-by-example to give in a name, although the current versions come with a bunch of pre-defined styles for different document types. Then you just attach the right style to the paragraph to put it at the level you want. Unlike programs that don't know what a paragraph is, you don't have to find the end of the paragraph yourself to turn the formatting off. Les Mikesell les@mcs.com