Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site aecom.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!philabs!aecom!werner
From: werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Another Wordstar ? (Column independence)
Message-ID: <1197@aecom.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 01:06:23 EST
Article-I.D.: aecom.1197
Posted: Fri Mar  1 01:06:23 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 5-Mar-85 02:04:55 EST
References: <8596@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Organization: Albert Einstein Coll. of Med., NY
Lines: 15

> I have a text to format that has 3 columns.  I want to submit text, 
> independent  of line constraints, into these 3 columns (each column is 
> about 25 char wide), and still retain ^B (reform) functionality.
> Is there a way to do this ??

	NO
	Not with Wordstar, or with Select, or with any of the half-dozen
word processors I've used.
	Two alternatives: the old cut-paste-photocopy method (Do the
columns separately and then paste together) or perhaps a postprocessor
along the lines of troff (nroff-like would not be enough)
-- 
				Craig Werner
				!philabs!aecom!werner
		What do you expect?  Watermelons are out of season!