Word: processor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Writers anxious to improve the quality of their prose and arguments should retype major drafts from a print-out. What? Is the Happy Hacker denouncing the key virtue of a word (once-its-there-you-never-have-to-type-it-again) processor? Not really. Rather, the Hacker is suggesting that by occasionally retyping a paper from scratch, the writer is forced to reconsider every word and sentence in a much more active way than simply by dragging a cursor across...
...well, it'd be difficult to clear it on the beaches....But clear that dust we must. Until at last the dust is atomic, and even then, it must clear, to reveal that one thing we've been really working for. Oh, writer, don't take up your word-processor for the army that creates a room full of clauses and retractions from the simplest of sentences. Not while there is cleaning to be done...
...nonsense instructor who has conducted classes in New York City, Bologna and now in Venice. As before, she advocates the one right way to do a particular task or dish, usually with her old reliable utensils. "If I had to choose, I would sooner give up my food processor, because what the food mill does, no processor or blender can." But she relents, giving instructions for both hand and machine methods on many tasks...
...will look a little funny). However, it's also possible to write a term paper with regular fonts laser-compatible. Simply use one of OIT's Mac system disks (which have the correct fonts), and then load in your Word or Mac Write file. Once in a Mac word processor, it's possible to define a block of text and change the font from the old image-writer font--such as Geneva or New York--into a laser font--such as Times Roman or Helvetica...
Printing from an IBM compatible file requires some advance preparation. Before going to OIT, a formatted version of the text to be printed must be created. Several of the leading word processors offer this as an option, usually called 'Create a Print File'. Preferable to a regular formatted file is a Postcript file which can be made with Microsoft Word or another Postcript compatible word processor...