Re: XyWrite to Word

["Patricia M. Godfrey" PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx]

Thomas J Hawley  wrote:

>Word is object-oriented (to format, you apply a property to an object).
>XyWrite is linear (to format, you insert a command in the text stream
>that takes effect from that point forward). Most of the frustration
>experienced by new Word users who were originally trained on a linear
>word processor (XyWrite, WordPerfect) is a direct result of their >
>failure to understand this.
>
But the real problem is that language itself (and writing is a language
art) is inherently linear. So an Object-oriented writing tool is a
contradiction in terms, and trying to use one an exercise in futility.

Patricia M. Godfrey
priscamg@xxxxxxxx