From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npois!ucbvax!C70:editor-people Newsgroups: fa.editor-p Title: where's the end of the line? Article-I.D.: ucb.1313 Posted: Thu Jun 10 01:25:52 1982 Received: Fri Jun 11 01:04:12 1982 Reply-To: ople >From Margolin.PDO@MIT-MULTICS Thu Jun 10 01:23:43 1982 I just wanted to mention something that I have always noticed about standalone word-processing systems (I haven't had much experience using them, so I don't really know how apropos this note will be). They generally seem to use the character stream model of text. They also generally have a special character on the screen that represents the newline at the end of each line (it often seems to be a down-pointing triangular shape). Does anyone know how these systems deal with lines that are too long for the screen? I bring this up because I assume that these systems must be doing something right by this time. The first one I ever saw was in a friend's father's legal office, about five years ago. In five years they must have learned what is best for professional secretaries and word processors. Perhaps I should get around to wandering into the MIT Word Processing Center, where they use CPT-8000 systems. barmar