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From: julian@osu-eddie.UUCP (Julian Gomez)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: suggestions for Macwrite and other w.p. programs
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Date: Sat, 5-Oct-85 17:29:03 EDT
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Word processing programs like Macwrite need a push ruler operation, so
that it's convenient to do a text display in the middle of a document.
Right now you have to insert two rulers around the display, then fix
the first of those. However, if for some reason you decide to change
the overall format of the document, you have to go through the whole
thing and fix every second ruler to correspond to the new main format.
There are lots of obvious problems with this kind of approach.  Better
is to have push and pop rulers, which will do what's wanted while
avoiding these problems.

While we're at it, it would be nice if Macwrite had a tagged indented
paragraph like you can do with ".ip" in nroff -me.

Feel free to use these ideas if you want (especially you, Apple!).
-- 
"If Chaos himself sat umpire, what better could he do?"

	Julian "a tribble took it" Gomez
	Computer Graphics Research Group, The Ohio State University
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