--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 163 WORD PERFECT Ref: DBY00046 Date: 07/27/96 From: DON NICKELL Time: 12:00am \/To: STEVE HAYES (Read 8 times) Subj: Underline to italic SH> With most word processors, this is not a problem. A simple SH> Search and Replace replaced the underlined text with SH> italics. SH> Unfortunately, this is not the case with WordPerfect, where SH> there doesn't seem to be any easy way of doing this, other SH> So please, can anyone out there suggest a way of changing SH> underlines to italics - WITHIN WordPerfect? What version of WP? DOS or WIN? I don't know nothing from WIN. Not sure I completely understand, Steve. Why can't you do it within WP, because of the Font you've selected? If that's the case you will have to change fonts, some fonts don't do italics. If that's not the case for you then Search/Replace in WP DOS can replace [anything] with [anything_else]. You can't? Is that the problem? * OLX 2.2 * don_nickell@nm-us.campus.mci.net --- Maximus 2.02 * Origin: Selective On-Line (tm) - Santa Fe, NM - (505) 473-9765 (1:15/11) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 163 WORD PERFECT Ref: DBY00047 Date: 07/27/96 From: DON NICKELL Time: 12:00am \/To: GORDON YOUNG (Read 8 times) Subj: WP51 on a 286 GY> No, I haven't tried MEMAKER. I have just the basic 1 meg of GY> ram, no SIMMS or anything. I've had this 286 for seven GY> years, so far it is adequate to my needs, though it is GY> always possible to wish for something better than you have. GY> I'll try MEMAKER MemMaker has nothing to do with extended memory above the basic 1 Meg. It utalizes the lower 1 M mo betta' by moving things into upper memory (640-1M) that would normally reside in the 640K (TSR's, drivers, etc.). Note that it is MemMaker with the double "M", otherwise it won't run. * OLX 2.2 * don_nickell@nm-us.campus.mci.net --- Maximus 2.02 * Origin: Selective On-Line (tm) - Santa Fe, NM - (505) 473-9765 (1:15/11) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 163 WORD PERFECT Ref: DBY00048 Date: 07/27/96 From: GARY COOPER Time: 02:04am \/To: RAYMOND MYERS (Read 8 times) Subj: fax autoexec.bat -=> Quoting Raymond Myers to Gary Cooper <=- GC>Creating a small .COM file to reboot your system is pretty easy, > To make a simple reboot .COM file just do the following from > the command line: GC>copy con reboot.com >HPS(alt+203)F6 RM> Gary, Thanks for your time and suggestion! I've never even RM> heard of being able to do what you suggest, so I'm learning a RM> lot of new stuff. If I have to go this route, it'll make me RM> lot like a 'puter expert, sure 'nuff! :) Hi Raymond: Glad I could help! Note also that the HPS must be upper case... TTYL Gary (T1'nNB) ... ACRONYM: Abbreviated Coded Rendition Of Name Yielding Meaning --- FMail/386 1.0g * Origin: Tardis Control (506)849-7362, USR V.34/V.FC! (1:255/13) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 163 WORD PERFECT Ref: DBY00049 Date: 07/27/96 From: FREDERICK SOHN Time: 01:32pm \/To: LARRY COHEN (Read 8 times) Subj: save sequentially Larry: SCOPY.BTM works for me either as a "DOS Command" or when shelling from either WP 5.1+ or WP 6.0C for DOS. As I recall, the version I gave you has some preliminary lines that include "//EnvFree=256". As you probably know, that's intended to insure that there's enough free space in the 4DOS environment by creating a secondary 4DOS shell with at least 256 bytes of free Environment space. Try commenting out that stuff and see what happens. Fred * OLX 2.1 TD * frederick.sohn@consultant.com --- PCBoard (R) v15.3/M 10 Beta * Origin: MoonDog BBS, Brooklyn,NY, 718 692-2498, 1:278/230 (1:278/230) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 163 WORD PERFECT Ref: DBY00050 Date: 07/27/96 From: FREDERICK SOHN Time: 01:32pm \/To: STEVE HAYES (Read 8 times) Subj: Underline to italic Steve: I'm pretty sure somebody will have a macro to convert underlining to italics. If not, it's easy enough to write; it just does what you'd do manually. Do an extended search (to include footnotes and such like) for the underline on (UND) code, block from there to the underline off (und) code, set the italics attribute for the blocked text, and keep going. Then go back and search for and delete all the underline on (or underline off) codes. (Doing it manually is much easier if you have, and use, the EditCode macro that shipped with WP 5.1 for DOS.) Fred * OLX 2.1 TD * frederick.sohn@consultant.com --- PCBoard (R) v15.3/M 10 Beta * Origin: MoonDog BBS, Brooklyn,NY, 718 692-2498, 1:278/230 (1:278/230) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 163 WORD PERFECT Ref: DBY00051 Date: 07/27/96 From: FREDERICK SOHN Time: 01:32pm \/To: STEVE HAYES (Read 8 times) Subj: fax autoexec.bat Steve: I'm a bit puzzled by the batch file you use to load WP. There are two lines, "faxdir" and "faxb," after each of which it echoes that the program has been successfully loaded. How does it know that? Fred * OLX 2.1 TD * frederick.sohn@consultant.com --- PCBoard (R) v15.3/M 10 Beta * Origin: MoonDog BBS, Brooklyn,NY, 718 692-2498, 1:278/230 (1:278/230) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 163 WORD PERFECT Ref: DBY00052 Date: 07/27/96 From: AUKE REITSMA Time: 11:04am \/To: STEVE HAYES (Read 8 times) Subj: Underline to italic Hi Steve, On 23 Jul 96, 22:56, Steve Hayes wrote to All SH> It has long been a typographical convention that text that is SH> underlined is typeset in italics. This is probably because most SH> tyewriters could not type italics. ... SH> So please, can anyone out there suggest a way of changing SH> underlines to italics - WITHIN WordPerfect? You didn't say for which version of WP. In WP6.0dos I recorded the folowing macro -- then added the comments: DISPLAY(Off!) // search for the Underline Off code -- this sets the 'previous position'. SearchString("[Und Off]"+"") // [Und On] is a code ... needs to be recorded SearchNext() // search backwards for the Underline On code and delete both codes SearchString("[Und On]"+"") // [Und Off] is a code ... needs to be ecorded SearchPrevious() DeleteCharPrevious // put the original underlined code in italics ... BlockOn(CharMode!) PosGoPrevious AttributeAppearanceToggle(Italics!) BlockOff // that's it. WP5.1dos is similar -- WP6.?win probably is too: I haven't tried. Caveat: if Block mode is on when you start this macro you'll lose text. This can be fixed by: IF( ?BlockMode ) // I'm not sure about that variable's name ... BlockOff ENDIF before the searching. Greetings from _____ /_|__| Auke Reitsma, Delft, The Netherlands. / | \ -------------------------------------- email: Auke.Reitsma@net.HCC.nl --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: Home by the C (2:281/400.20) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 163 WORD PERFECT Ref: DBY00053 Date: 07/27/96 From: ANNE EHRENSHAFT Time: 06:29pm \/To: BRUCE WILSON (Read 8 times) Subj: RE: WP 5.1+ CONUNDRUM Hi Bruce, BW>F:\WPWIN > GRAPHICS > LEARN > MACROS > STYLES Does this mean you've bitten the bullet and gone over to the dark side?? * QMPro 1.50 41-8773 * Beware of geeks bearing .GIF's --- QScan/PCB v1.16b / 01-0221 * Origin: Premier ]I[ BBS_ConsortLink (1:3615/75) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 163 WORD PERFECT Ref: DBZ00000 Date: 07/27/96 From: MARTIN CLEAVER Time: 04:17pm \/To: STEVE HAYES (Read 8 times) Subj: Underline to italic Hi Steve, In a message of to All (), you wrote: SH> With most word processors, this is not a problem. A simple Search and SH> Replace replaced the underlined text with italics. SH> Unfortunately, this is not the case with WordPerfect, where there oesn't SH> seem to be any easy way of doing this, other than exporting the text to SH> another word processor and changing it there. In which case, one might SH> just as well have used the other word processor in the first place. There is a macro with all releases since 6. It's called attrib and it will change attributes (bold to small caps etc, etc). The alternative is to write a quick and dirty macro to look for underline on, block to underline off, change to italics and then iterate... ;-) Then you can search and replace underline by nothing and Bob's your uncle! Greetings, Martin Cleaver (mcleaver@artnet.xs4all.nl) --- * Origin: ArtNet (2:280/204@fidonet)