Re: Change Invisibles: migrating from Xy 3.55 to 4.017 (should be 4.018)

[Richard Giering dick.giering@xxxxxxxx]

Has anyone ever used the STRIP.PRN that is/was, at
least used to be, available?
Dick Giering

Leslie Bialler wrote:
>
> Peter Brown wrote:
>
> >
> > My strip routine, which is probably about as inelegant as this list can
> > imagine, searches for "fn1" in expanded mode, then changes to normal mode
> > (CM), and finally does a backspace delete [BD] (it loops on those deletions
> > until all the footnotes are outta there). Trouble was, I wrote CM whenever I
> > wanted the program to switch modes (normal/expanded), and that meant that
> > running the routine in expanded mode would make my mode switching and
> > context sensitive deletions tricky to correct. The lesson, I guess, is to
> > avoid scroll lock (which embeds the CM function), and use XP and WG (for
> > expanded mode and normal mode, respectively).
> >
>
> Peter,
>
> Inelegant, but it works. That's about what I do, too. But: don't you need to put
> in n at the point where you've dug out the footnotes?
>
> Note to Anne P. et al. at Nota Bene: How about adding this feature to your next
> upgrade?
>
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