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From: mjohnson@Apple.COM (Mark B. Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Apple Technotes
Message-ID: <35238@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 3 Oct 89 20:12:52 GMT
References: <8910021343.aa00981@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <8910021343.aa00981@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> ALBRO@NIEHS.BITNET writes:
>The original question was concerned with the delays in releasing the AppleII
>technotes, and now the discussion has shifted to the AppleII word processor
>format.  Regardless of the format, the delay would be the same.  If it is
>_necessary_ to write Apple II technotes on a Mac (Why??), why can't you use
>a Mac wordprocessor that has a 'Print to ASCII File on Disk' option??  That
>should save two weeks.  So you would have to skip the pictures - you're doing
>that now anyway.

Show me a solid word processor on the Apple II that can do what most of the
high-end word processors on the Mac do, at the same speed or better, dealing
with the graphics and volume we do and I would consider using it.  Because
no such beast exists (my opinion here) the work is done on a Mac (which also
provides consistency between the two platforms).

We do print to a TEXT file, but that doesn't take care of non-printable
characters or formatting for a nice format on the Apple II.  This has to be
done with a combination of scripts and hand tweaking.  As for the graphics,
I beg to differ.  You will find that ALL Apple II Notes contain the graphics
converted to ASCII format.


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