Re: WYSIWYG vs. tags

[Pat Madea <madea -at- MMSI -dot- COM>]

Arlen,

You posted

 <snip,snip>

   >Funny. I've always seen that as a major *flaw* in Word Perfect, that it
 allowed
   >you to screw up a document to the point where you couldn't get it unscrewed
   >without resorting to working with the actual formatting codes. Let's face
 it:
   >the only time "view codes" is necessary is when the word processor has
 either
   >put a code in the wrong spot, or not removed the entire doe when you changed
 the
   >format. That's just plain bad programming. I've worked in four other WYSIWYG
   >word processors, and none of them *ever* let me get into a position where I
   >needed anything like "view codes" to untangle the mess. Only Word Perfect
 was so
   >badly written as to make something like that necessary.

And I have to disagree insofar as getting "...into a mess where I
needed anything like "view codes" to untangle the mess."

I use FM4 now and I'm forever trying to determine where the BOLD/bold
codes are or the UNDERLINE/underline or FONT/font codes in the line of
text so I can position my cursor appropriately, especially when I want
to delete them.  Reveal codes in WP allowed me to see them and handle
them appropriately.  Unfortunately, I'm sure many of my FM documents
have more than a few "hidden" code pairs sprinkled throughout them.

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