Ries, Wolfgang wrote:
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I haven't tried the macro that was apparently written to simulate WP
reveal codes, but would strongly advise the relevant programmers to look
at the reveal code facility again and not just to brush it aside.
Remember WP is still in the market and those serious regarding the
flexibility of the reveal codes (and now be able to print the text with
all the formatting codes as well), may well opt to pay for a WP 12
package - even if it is expensive. I may be one of them.
Honestly, this is getting frustrating. For the umpteenth time...
THERE ARE NO CODES TO REVEAL IN OPENOFFICE.ORG!
It isn't stubbornness, it isn't perversity, it isn't some kind of smug
superiority. The plain fact of the matter is that "Reveal Codes" simply
doesn't make any sense in the context of OOo. None, zero, zip, nada.
I mean, what is it? Do you people think we're just lying to you?
Here's a fact for you: The only reason for "Reveal Codes" in Wordperfect
is to allow you to manually correct the horribly goobered up mess that
you get yourselves into with their stream tokens. I know, I've seen
those kinds of messes in WP 5.2.
Object model vs. stream-token model. Two different concepts, two
different paradigms. In one, RC is extremely useful, in the other, RC is
as meaningless as feathers on a cat. It's a categorical error, a
difference in types. It's like the difference between bitmap editors and
vector graphics. They both make pictures but they do it in completely
different ways. And they are both good at some things and lousy at others.
Bottom line: If Wordperfect fits your needs and the way you work, then
by all means *use it*. Because if what you really, really, need is a
program that operates in the exact, particular, way that Wordperfect
operates then Writer will not, and can not, ever satisfy those needs.
--
Rod
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