Re[3]: Re. WYSIWYG vs. ta

[powen -at- MAIL -dot- LMI -dot- ORG]

     Marilynne says about WordImperfect's tags:

          >What WordImperfect needs to do is to create a "flush tags"
          >command that would give you "sparkling clean words only" for the
          >selected text.  Then you could either re-tag it or just let the
          >underlying format take over.  Given my current state of
          >frustration, I would not recommend WordPerfect for
          >documentation.

     I think you could probably achieve the same result by saving the WP
     document as an ASCII text file. Of course, you would lose *all*
     formatting, but the same would be true if you had a "flush tags"
     command, as I understand your definition of it. Since all all
     formatting is controlled by tags in WP, there is no real "underlying
     format." You'd have to distinguish which kinds of tags would be
     "flushed," which sounds like a great idea if Novell could figure out
     how to do it. My vote is that Novell redesign WP entirely for the
     Windows environment, dropping the tags and the whole, aggravating
     "reveal codes" concept. Novell, are you listening?

     BTW, Marilynne, welcome to the growing group of frustrated
     WordImperfect users. I'm working on a Saturday because, to change the
     formatting of tables in my client's WordImperfect document, I'm having
     to take twice as long as I normally would in Word because of all the
     stupid tags. I can't just attache a style because of tag conflicts.
     :~{. I'm thinking of adding "WordPerfect code tracker" to my resume.

     Pam Owen
     Nighthawk Communications
     Reston, VA
     Nighthawk1 -at- aol -dot- com, or powen -at- lmi -dot- org