[net.micro.mac] FLASH!!! New/old rumors from B

brewer@uiucuxe.CSO.UIUC.EDU (01/17/86)

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> Sounds great. One thing I've been thinking of recently is a new font 'style'
> similar to bold or italic -- strikeout. Many systems allow you to strikeout a
> character (equivalent to <char> <backspace> "-", and it would be quite simple
> to implement at the font manager level.  I'm currently doing some editing of
> another person's document and that would be quite handy as a way of showing
> changes.
> 
Actually, this seems like a simple feature to be added to a next generation
word processor perhaps at the core-edit level, sort of like Microsoft
implemented Small caps in Word even though that is not a directly supported
quickdraw mode.
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