Re: Wikipedia entry on XyWrite

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

You can't be referring to
anything as fundamental as

 

  IP 5,0


No. Atex could of course do what IP does.


But what is great about the IX and IM commands are that they don't
require a value! IX indented for the length of the paragraph; IM indented
until cancelled, if I recall correctly.


So, what you have is something like this:


MY points are:


[and then your points would indent FROM THAT PLACE, wherever it was,
without your having to specify a value, until you cancelled the IM
command.]


Something similar in Quark but I think it only works for the duration of
the paragraph.


In other words, rather than 'indent 0.5 inches' the command is 'indent
from here, no matter where here is'.