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Subject:Re: Converting Windows Help Files to OS/2 From:Marilynne Smith <mrsmith -at- CTS -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 16 Jan 1996 21:54:00 PST
Michael: Is there an online collection of IPF tags? A style guide? Any
help that we can get from the web?
Marilynne
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At 12:59 PM 1/15/96 EST, Michael Priestley wrote:
>Alexander Von_obert <avobert -at- TWH -dot- MSN -dot- SUB -dot- ORG> writes:
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>>Try to change fonts or use colored text in OS/2 help.
>To change fonts:
> :font facename='Courier' size=10x8.
>To change color:
> :color fc=red bc=green.
> (gives you foreground color red, and background color green. oog..)
>Mind you, I don't encourage people to go crazy with fonts and colors in
>online docs (the "Christmas tree" effect). But if you really want to,
>then it's pretty straightforward to do.
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>I hope this makes sense,
>Michael Priestley
>mpriestley -at- vnet -dot- ibm -dot- com
>Disclaimer: speaking on my own behalf, not IBM's.
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Marilynne Smith
mrsmith -at- cts -dot- com
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