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!