Re: Xy Win/macros, etc.

["riverunner" riverunner@xxxxxxxx]

Are "Styles" similar to or the same thing as "normals?" (i.e. merging a
certain kind of document into the present new document?).

Mimi Gauthier LeBien

-----Original Message-----
From: Leslie Bialler 
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx 
Date: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 8:40 AM
Subject: Re: Xy Win/macros, etc.


≫
≫ >I've only recently (after using Xy3/Xy4/XyWin for 10-11 years)
discovered
≫ >Styles. They have some problems, but they may be worth investigating.
≫ >Cheers
≫ >Eric Van Tassel
≫
≫ Well, what exactly are styles? I thought they are just small collections
≫ of format commands.... something I have been using since WordStar1,
without
≫ feeling that it needs a special name. Or is there more to it?
≫
≫ -- Rene von Rentzell, Tokyo 
>
>
>Rene,
>
>The idea is you can put format commands in a style. Here's how, in case
>you don't know:
>
>At the top of the file, say, enter within the chevrons ≪SS1,ip=5,0≫.
>Then, at the first instance of an indented paragraph enter ≪US1≫. The
>style will remain in place until you change it. Within the chevrons you
>can add indents, centering, typefaces, margins, and modes.
>
>
>
>--
>Leslie Bialler
>Columbia University Press
>lb136@xxxxxxxx
≫ http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup