Re: WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux - Deluxe
Peter Sjoberg <[email protected]>
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On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 13:08 -0400, Andy Civil wrote: > On 2010-11-03 12:28 PM, Bill Strosberg wrote: > > If you are able to generate a document > > identical to one that uses "display codes", what exact benefit does the > > feature provide? > > The OP is correct; 'reveal codes' is fundamentally important: it allows you to > see, not just 'what you get' but 'why you got it'. You NEED to know why you got > it, to ensure that your intentions survive unconnected modifications. > > To give a trivial example, suppose I create a document with tabs in it, and my > kid comes along and adds a paragraph using a row of spaces instead. It might > look right TODAY, but what if I decide to change the tab spacing? Now her edits > look broken. Another example would be an accidental carriage return at a place > in a paragraph where a word wrap occurred anyway. Don't really know what "display codes" does but what you describe above I have issues with also and my solutions in OO is to enable View->"nonprinting Characters" (or ctrl-F10 or one of the buttons), then it shows carriage returns, tabs and so on on the screen. > -- > Andy -- OCLUG general discussion list [email protected] http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/oclug