... This has been discussed previously on this list. In fact, it is not even the best/easiest solution for coming up with an OS X-native version of WP. Corel...
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RBRoufberg@...
rbroufberg
Oct 2, 2005 2:10 am
... Thanks, Ruth R. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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John Rethorst
jrethorst
Oct 3, 2005 4:25 am
... ***** "Here"? Where is "here"? Please give a link or URL. Files section of this group. Title is "Tips & Macros 2.0"....
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John Rethorst
jrethorst
Oct 3, 2005 4:29 am
... This is hard to understand. Corel makes money by developing and marketing software. If a market has been identified, and the company does not have a...
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Randy B. Singer
randy@...
Oct 3, 2005 6:56 am
... I think that Corel, with WordPerfect, is sort of in the position that Apple was just before the release of the iMac (which was the product that started the...
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R. Kevin Hill
rkevinhill
Oct 3, 2005 3:16 pm
I thought I had addressed this, but perhaps my claim had been refuted and I missed it? Many years ago, Corel and Microsoft entered into a contract. I don't...
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Phillip Jones, C.E.T.
pjonescet
Oct 3, 2005 4:31 pm
... If that's the problem why doesn't Corel sell WordPerfect to someone else. I mean the Mac, PC, Linux, Unix versions period. Since they want to go strictly...
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Graham Wilson
grahamnr17
Oct 3, 2005 4:39 pm
Sounds frighteningly like the kind of thing MS would do. Did anyone say anti-trust? ;-) Graham W...
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Randy B. Singer
randy@...
Oct 3, 2005 7:50 pm
... That is, of course, a compelling paranoid fantasy, but just about none of it is true. Development for WP/Mac was officially discontinued several months...
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Randy B. Singer
randy@...
Oct 3, 2005 7:55 pm
... This has already been addressed on this list several times. Corel has indicated that they don't want to sell the WP/Mac product to someone else because...
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David Derbes
drderbes
Oct 3, 2005 11:02 pm
... I am not sure that is entirely correct. As some random readers may know, I was a frequent poster on the list comp.os.os2.advocacy. OS/2 was originally a...
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Randy B. Singer
randy@...
Oct 4, 2005 12:53 am
... No, I don't have a high opinion of Microsoft at all. Quite the contrary. But as you said, there is *no* evidence that Microsoft had a hand in the ...
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S Zaveloff
zaveloff
Oct 4, 2005 1:42 am
In order to use WP Mac on my iBook G4, I have to zoom to 150% or more to be able to read the text without a magnifying glass. The problem I have run into...
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RBRoufberg@...
rbroufberg
Oct 4, 2005 2:00 am
... Gold key Another modifier key, like command, option and control. Its default mapping is to the 5 and 7 keys on the keypad, but it can be set to ...
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R. Kevin Hill
rkevinhill
Oct 4, 2005 2:00 am
Thanks for clearing that up--this was just hearsay which sounded plausible, but I had never looked into ay of it personally. I guess I don't quite see the "not...
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John Rethorst
jrethorst
Oct 4, 2005 2:08 am
... That's a display problem. Try turning Fractional Character Widths in the Page Setup dialog on or off, and see whether either improves spacing with the font...
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John Rethorst
jrethorst
Oct 4, 2005 2:39 am
... "wrong." Install this macro, naming it something like LetterSwitch: Raw Read (char;Left) Delete Right Left () Type Var (RawObject) Right () Display (On) ...
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John Rethorst
jrethorst
Oct 4, 2005 2:43 am
... Tossing your prefs file can help too. Quit WP, go to System Folder > Preferences > WordPerfect and toss e.g. "Preferences (GBR)", "Preferences (USA)"....
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S Zaveloff
zaveloff
Oct 4, 2005 3:19 am
... Turning it on solved the problem. Thanks. -- ... Steven H. Zaveloff zaveloff@... P.O. Box 200203 Tel: (512)219-7142 ...
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Archer Family
cordobatim
Oct 4, 2005 2:56 pm
An interesting read is "The Microsoft File" by Wendy Goldman Rohm. Amazon has it in digital format; you might can find a real copy somewhere (I found it in our...
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RBRoufberg@...
rbroufberg
Oct 4, 2005 10:23 pm
Whew! It's going to take me a while to figure this all out, but I didn't want to delay thanking you for such a thorough and prompt solution. Ruth R. ...
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John Rethorst
jrethorst
Oct 4, 2005 10:27 pm
... You're most welcome. I should have organized my post better, to say it covered two independent things: the gold key, and the Letterswitch macro. This macro...
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Phillip Jones, C.E.T.
pjonescet
Oct 5, 2005 1:09 am
What you are talking about can be done with TypeIt4Me. I had it in OS 9 and have it in OSX. what you do is each time you discover something like that highlight...
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Randy B. Singer
randy@...
Oct 5, 2005 5:30 am
For the many folks who have complained that they would like an alternative word processor to Microsoft Word, this news item is very interesting: Google, Sun To...
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Rick Mansfield
rick_mansfield
Oct 5, 2005 4:05 pm
You know the thing about it is, if WordPerfect really wanted to give Microsoft a run for its money, they could resurrect some of their shelved versions (Mac,...
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R. Kevin Hill
rkevinhill
Oct 5, 2005 4:06 pm
I really didn't mean to stir up any mischief by my speculations about the Corel abandonment of WPMac. I too have been anxious about the switch to Intel, the...
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John Rethorst
jrethorst
Oct 5, 2005 4:50 pm
... With difficulty! For some more on the future of the US fiber-optic network and distributed computing (now coming to be called "Google-mashing"), see ...
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Geoff Gilbert
Geoff@...
Oct 5, 2005 9:55 pm
But only if all platforms could read files from all other platforms .......
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John Rethorst
jrethorst
Oct 5, 2005 10:33 pm
WP already was in that position, back when all platforms meant DOS, Mac, Next, Amiga, Atari etc. I don't know whether documents were cross-platform. IAC...
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Rick Albright
logres0
Oct 6, 2005 4:15 am
Thanks to John for the Letterswitch macro. I had tried a slightly different version of this a few years ago (some of the macro commands were different), but...
