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Subject:Re: WYSIWYG vs. tags From:"Arlen P. Walker" <Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- JCI -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 31 Aug 1995 06:29:00 -0600
Here's another note on the WHYSIWYG vs. tag-based
editors thread. One thing I absolutely love about
WordPerfect is the "reveal codes" (tags) window.
I've long since stopped counting the number of
times I used it to discover and delete a strange
formatting code that I could never see or debug in
any other software. Marvelous feature, and
thoroughly indispensible.
Funny. I've always seen that as a major *flaw* in Word Perfect, that it allowed
you to screw up a document to the point where you couldn't get it unscrewed
without resorting to working with the actual formatting codes. Let's face it:
the only time "view codes" is necessary is when the word processor has either
put a code in the wrong spot, or not removed the entire doe when you changed the
format. That's just plain bad programming. I've worked in four other WYSIWYG
word processors, and none of them *ever* let me get into a position where I
needed anything like "view codes" to untangle the mess. Only Word Perfect was so
badly written as to make something like that necessary.
Have fun,
Arlen
arlen -dot- p -dot- walker -at- jci -dot- com
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