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Re: Ig Nobel documentation

Subject: Re: Ig Nobel documentation
From: Carter Campbell <lists -at- soph-text -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2020 13:24:57 -0700

Hi Mark;

I think Ventura's window manager was Digital Research's GEM Desktop.

Thanks

Carter

I'm interested! I used Ventura Publisher in the late 80s on for a few years. It was on an early version of Windows and I believe Ventura came with its own strange GUI program, can't remember what that was called...

I have a friend who just kept using Ventura and as afar as I know he still uses it to publish some kind of catalog. I imagine it's in some virtual machine at this point. I recall his version was at least 17 years old.

Mark Giffin
Mark Giffin Consulting, Inc.
http://markgiffin.com/

On 12/31/2019 7:10 PM, Jay Maechtlen wrote:
On 12/31/2019 5:27 PM, John Allred wrote:
I used to be a strong proponent for Ventura, right up until my last update of equipment and OS in the past couple of months. Although Corel ceased upgrades past 2002, I continued using it for above 15 years. Doubtful anyone is interested, but I have some sample docs on my portfolio web site that are incredibly complex. I couldn't imagine learning new software to accomplish what I did back then. One example is a telephone directory for state agencies and employees. Ventura had a bundled database publisher that made this doable, with care and effort. http://nwatechwriting.com/docs/phonebook.pdf, if interested. FWIW, my name appears on page 35.

Just feeling lowly at this mention, since I finally pulled the plug on it this month. I just couldn't make it operate under Win10.

Very sad.

~John Allred

If I felt the need, I'd just run it on one of my win2k VMs, or maybe an XP vm.

Virtualbox is free...


On 12/31/2019 7:12 PM, John G wrote:
Ventura ... that rings some very old bells...

On Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 6:06 PM Jay Maechtlen <techwriter -at- laserpubs -dot- com>
wrote:

On 10/23/2018 8:54 AM, Lin Sims wrote:
People still index! At my current company, any document over about 20
pages
(not including covers, TOCs, generated lists and legal stuff) gets an
index. This is a first for me, and I've been enjoying learning how to
create a (hopefully) good index.
Nice - I think the last time I got to do an index was when I was still
building manuals with Ventura.


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