herbw@midas.UUCP (Herb Weiner) (10/08/86)
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MacTerminal has an extremely useful function in the File menu which allows
any contiguous subset of the document to be printed. This menu item is
labeled "Print Selection...". To use it, select the desired text and
choose the menu item.
The question: Is there any editor or word processor which provides this
function? (If not, why not?)
The request: Software developers (including Apple): This is extremely
useful, especially during program development. Please
add this function to your editors.
-- Herb Weiner (...!tektronix!midas!herbw)akk2@ur-tut.UUCP (A Kacker) (10/09/86)
In article <735@midas.UUCP> herbw@midas.UUCP (Herb Weiner) writes: >-------- >MacTerminal has an extremely useful function in the File menu which allows >any contiguous subset of the document to be printed. This menu item is >The request: Software developers (including Apple): This is extremely > useful, especially during program development. Please > add this function to your editors. > > -- Herb Weiner (...!tektronix!midas!herbw) Why should one be restricted to contiguous sections only ? It would be nice to be able to select different subsections of a document to be printed or saved to a disk file. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Atul Kacker UUCP : {allegra|seismo|decvax}!rochester!ur-tut!akk2 BITNET : AKK2@UORDBV
werner@ut-ngp.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) (10/10/86)
In article <767@ur-tut.UUCP>, akk2@ur-tut.UUCP (A Kacker) writes: > In article <735@midas.UUCP> herbw@midas.UUCP (Herb Weiner) writes: --- > >MacTerminal has an extremely useful function in the File menu which allows > >any contiguous subset of the document to be printed. This menu item is > > -- Herb Weiner (...!tektronix!midas!herbw) > Why should one be restricted to contiguous sections only ? It would > be nice to be able to select different subsections of a document to > be printed or saved to a disk file. I can't help but jump in and yell for the missing capability to APPEND to existing files ... and while I'm yelling, when is Apple going to come out with an upgrade for MacWrite (at least the manual that explains how) to recover from a crash using the work-files that still lie around. Just yesterday, I got a message from a fellow-netter, telling me how his Mac crashed at 1am and after restarting he found those "funny-named" files lieing around. He tried to look at them using MacWrite, but that wouldn't work. so he double-clicked the text-doc he had been working on with the vaguest of hopes that, just maybe, some of his work was not lost - vain, of course. Then, when he quit MacWrite, the funny files were gone ..... do I need say more? (brought to you by the folks with the thin manuals, that don't have the word "Errors" in the index or Table of Contents. Wishful thinking that hurts all users, I say) Quite honestly, MacWrite, both program and (lack of) documentation is not a product I'd be very proud of - I wonder if Apple is?! Oh yeah, the paper and print quality is great!!!