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From: dorourke@polyslo.UUCP (David O'Rourke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: FullWrite index for Tech Notes
Message-ID: <3054@polyslo.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jun 88 07:21:38 GMT
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Reply-To: dorourke@polyslo.UUCP (David O'Rourke)
Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo
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In article  lipa@POLYA.STANFORD.EDU (William Lipa) writes:
>Only the index is in FullWrite format, presumably because MacWrite does not
>have an indexing facility. Why they do not just cut and paste their FullWrite
>generated index into MacWrite I do not know.

 I think some one at Apple just wanted to play with FWP.

 Has anyone looked at the indes.  They didn't use the indexing feature of
FWP to do it.  Try get info and you will see a whole bunch of keystrokes, and
a fair amount of time invested.  Besides to use the indexing of FWP you have
to include the text you're indexing.  It's also in multi-column format and
has tab leaders, you can't do either of these in MacWrite or plain text files.

 Despite all of these wonderful reasons I still think it was because someone
at Apple likes FWP and decided to use it for a "real world" project, ala...
indexing the Mac Tech Notes.


-- 
David M. O'Rourke

Disclaimer: I don't represent the school.  All opinions are mine!