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From: mmunz@pro-beagle.cts.com (Mark Munz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Apple Technotes
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Date: 3 Oct 89 16:26:12 GMT
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Network Comment: to #11165 by mjohnson@apple.com


> >How about in trusty AppleWorks Word Processor Format!! If folks don't h
> >AppleWorks, there are half a dozen AWP veiwer/printer programs availabl
> >
> Not likely.  Even AW limits the audience, and it would be unfair to othe
> WP developers to favor a Claris product, especially when the advantage o
> straight ASCII text is minimal at best.

 Since Technotes are already available in Ascii format, why change..

 Sure, AWP (a standard format) lets you do things like centering, indenting,
etc without regard to CPI and such. So if I wanted to squeeze 2 technotes on
one page by changing the CPI to 17 and Lines per inch to 8, I could. Or if I
wanted to change the size of the technote header to 8 CPI, etc. I could.

With good ol' Ascii, you get CR's at the end of each line, and that nifty
SPACE formatting.. You know, where everything has spaces between it. Indent..
sure, just put 3 spaces before each line. What, you want to indent more than
3, you'll have to do that by hand. Paragraphs? What's that?

While using AWP format would favor a Claris product, it would not mean that
folks would have to use that Claris product.  As I said, there are at least a
half a dozen AWP file viewers that folks can get at no cost. And because AWP
is accepted as a standard, almost every word processor supports importing from
AppleWorks.

--Mark Munz