on Wed, 16 Jan 2002 10:19:49AM -0800, Craig Dickson insinuated: > > But that's just it; I need to be able to control the _exact_ > > appearance of each letter. > > Why? I understand wanting to be able to set up paragraph styles with > options for intra-line spacing, kerning, and so on, but why would > you need to be able to change these things on a letter-by-letter > basis? Would your documents really look much different if you had to > settle for paragraph styles?
yes, minutely, and enough that it would make me happier. i love linux and will never turn back to windoze, but i do every now and then miss a component of aestheticism that was more present there than it perhaps ever will be in the linux world. not that i choose my OS based on that, as i said, but it would be nice to have similar capabilites in the open-source world. > > [WP is] just a solid workhorse that I just haven't found in the > > open source world. > > Or anywhere else in the non-open-source world, I bet. There is a > reason for this: very few people want that kind of power, or the UI > complexity that goes with it. Reveal Codes is not the sort of thing > that your average secretary can understand easily. ain't true. i worked in a legal firm; the first thing i was taught was how to use Word Perfect, and the secretary with whom i worked who hadn't graduated from high school but who'd been at the firm for ten years *rocked* at Reveal Codes. she never turned them off. </nori> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>-------------------------------------------------- -------------------------http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/~nori/jnl/daily.html
