Re: TTG marketing woes

["Paul R. Falzer" prf@xxxxxxxx]

At 02:06 PM 2/2/96 EST, you wrote:
>I'm really not going to continue this thread much longer but I have to
>protest that Paul misses my main point:

Chuck, I think I have been responding to one element of your argument.
However, it seems that you and I have an honest and I hope amicable
disagreement: you say that GUI word processors can't do X, Y, and now Z. I
am saying that they can. First, it was the ability to work without a mouse;
second, it was having a large, highly readable, draft font. Now third:

>Yes, you can play all those games, but it's still that miserable black on
>white, shimmering screen, with the lousy kerning (more space between
>letters than words sometimes). You go blind looking at that 10-12 hours a
>day. In contrast to--what I have now even in my email reader (Pegasus
>for DOS, thank you)--well-proportioned white on blue letters, monospaced,
>comfortable line length, etc., I can work with it all day long and not get
>headaches.

Do you have access to a copy of WinWord 6? If so, open any document. Then:

1. Strike alt-T O G U (Tools-Options-General-Blue on White). Presto: you
have white text on a blue background. "OK" your way out.

2. Strike alt-O S alt-M alt-O F (Format-Style-Modify-Format-Font). Make a
selection, depending on the fonts on your system. For instance, you might
consider Lucida Sans Typewriter or Century Gothic -- both are clear,
non-proportional, typefaces. "OK" your way out of the dialog box.

3. Change the zoom so that the text is the proper size for you by striking
alt-V Z alt-E [enter a number] (view-zoom-percent-your number). "OK" your
way out.

4. Be sure that you are in draft mode by striking alt-V. If there's a dot
adjacent to the "normal" item, you are in draft mode already; if not, strike
N and you will go to draft mode. WinWord automatically starts in the mode
you were in when you quit the program, so if you quit in draft mode, you
will start up in draft mode.

5. If you want a completely clean screen -- no icon bars, rulers, status
bars, and the like -- you can have that as well, or any parts thereof. Even
in "full screen" view, you have access to the menus via the keyboard (alt-F
for file, alt-E for edit, etc.).

>No Windows program gives you that. If one did, I think it
>would find an eager market of, yes, people who have to pay close attention
>to the content of writing, and also want to be able to run several
>programs concurrently, transfer data back and forth, and all that.

There you go.

Paul