Re: Word Processor

[gareth@vcn.bc.ca (Gareth Jones)]

J. L. Walters (bird@MCS.COM) wrote:

(snipping my mad idea about a story editor in GraphicWriter III)

: Expanding a bit, perhaps they could use an existing word processor
: e.g., uemacs.

Um, the only emacs I've seen is a programmer's word processor that lacks 
fonts, sizes, styles, and colours of text. I was thinking something 
closer to a "Teach" editor.

: Questions:

: Would all of the text in the GW3 window be in the story editor's
: window? If so, how does it maintain the formatting in the GW3 window
: when one returns to the GW3 window?

I was thinking of all the text in the currently selected GWIII _story_ 
appearing in the story editor window. As for formatting, there is no 
reason that, say, the justification and indentation settings shouldn't be 
retained as you go from one view (standard GWIII window) to another 
(story editor). Closing the story editor window would cause the text to pour 
into the already-defined chain of linked text areas in the GWIII window, 
just as if it were being imported into a blank text regions.

: Would it be better to bring only selected text to the story editor?
: If so, and if none selected where would added text go on return to
: GW3? At the I-beam?

I wouldn't like to be limited to selected text, since that means that I'd 
have to move from page to page, extending or setting the limits of the 
selection, in order to edit the whole story. You can already edit 
selections quite efficiently in GWIII, IMHO. Zipping through a set of 
linked text areas on different pages to edit a story is, however, less 
efficient for me.

Let me stress - this is just an idea that I'm tossing out for discussion. 
I doubt that it would be high on Seven Hills' list of changes for the next 
GWIII. 

-Gareth

: Kind Regards,
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: 	Joe Walters:  bird@mcs.com or J.L.Walters@genie.com
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