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Date:         Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:35:12 EST
From:         Ken Koester <MAINT2@ERS.BITNET>
Subject: Re: comments?
              27 Jan 1993 16:27:04 -0400 from <YORK@SSCVAX.CIS.M CMASTER.CA>

On Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:27:04 -0400 IAN YORK said:
>        The association of the William tell Overture with the Lone Ranger may
>not require familiarity with the show.  I have never seen or heard the show,
>but clearly remember making biddy-bump biddy-bump noises as I galloped on my
>(imaginary) horses (perhaps I should point out that this was some time ago,
>and I rarely do either now.)  In other words, I think the WTO/LR association
>has entered into oral culture (or the collective unconciousness, or whatever:
>there's probably a better phrase.)
>        Ian

Mayhap, and maybe it's just that it's galloping music to begin with--I
*really* can't see myself bounding down the side of an alp to that rhythm
(-: . . . not while keeping my bones unbroken, in any case.  Myself, I
always associate the last movement of the "New World" symphony with LR.
(or is it the third movement?)  On the other hand, I don't really associate
the second movement of the 9th with the =Huntly-Brinkly Report=, despite the
many years I watched it.  On the gripping hand, any culture is better than none
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Date:         Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:17:17 CST
From:         "John Coryell." <jcoryell@NWU.EDU>
Organization: MI
Subject:      Re: Poet Laureate
Comments: To: literary@ucf1vm.bitnet

>> I seem to recall reading recently that we no longer have a Poet Laureate
>> as the last one resigned.  If that is true, I think that Maya Angelou would
>> be an excellent choice.
>>
>> Mindy Fiala
>> MFiala@vax1.umkc.edu
>
>Maya Angelou was named (U.S.) Poet Laureate last year by George Bush.
>Like the British Poets Laureate, the US position has been graced by
>persons of uneven talent.  To be fair, it _is_ a lousy position; the
>PL must produce works on demand for occasions not usually poetically (?)
>inspiring.
>
>Does anyone recall the name of the British Poet Laureate?  Last I heard,
>it was a poet from the West Indies, a Derek ___(?)
>
>Richard Bugyi-Sutter
>E Stroudsburg Univ, PA, USA.

Mona Van Duyn, not Maya Angelou, is the Poet Laureate of the U.S.
Prior to her, it was Mark Strand, who succeeded Howard Nemerov, a
favorite of the Irish.  The position is only five years old, having
evolved from the Library of Congress Poetry Consultant; Mona Van
Duyn is the first woman to be appointed.

And the U.S. Poet Laureate does not have to compose on demand; the
extent of the requirement is that he or she give a public speech,
the LC equivalent of a University's honorary annual lecture.  There
is a grant which comes with it, and there's a guarantee of having
the celebratory Selected Poems published or reprinted to accomodate
the hordes of people who, obviously, rush out in peals of excitement
upon hearing that there is a new PL to familiarize themselves
thoroughly with the corpse of work.

John Coryell.
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Date:         Thu, 28 Jan 1993 09:36:50 AST
From:         "J. Russell Perkin" <RPERKIN@SHARK.STMARYS.CA>
Subject:      Jameson, Dos Passos, Dreiser
Comments: To: LITERARY@ucf1vm.cc.ucf.edu

Could someone be kind enough to help me with a reference I can't
locate.  I *think* I remember Fredric Jameson somewhere saying
that Dos Passos and Dreiser are the two great and neglected modern
American novelists.  I've tried all the obvious places in Jameson's
works (though the indexes are not always thorough).  Does anyone know
what I'm thinking of (or whether it was someone else that I'm
confusing with Jameson)?  (These irritating academic memory lapses
are probably worth studying--and I'm sure someone has done one).

Russell Perkin
Saint Mary's University
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From: afarkas@ernie.Princeton.EDU (Andrew Farkas)
Subject: Re: PostScript header file in WP
Originator: news@nimaster
Keywords: PostScript, WP, letterhead
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:56:20 GMT

In article <1993Jan23.114854.10397@alf.uib.no> iversen@vsfys1.fi.uib.no writes:

>LaTeX to WP under Windows: He has a PostScript file that creates a nice custom 
>letter head, this was easy to include in letters when using LaTeX. How can he
>continue to use this file with WP? It is not really necessary that it can be 

All he needs to do is create a graphics box where he wants the file
to appear.  He should set the file name to the ps file, and he's all
set.  He probably won't be able to see it in print preview, but he'll
get his ps output.
-- 
Andrew Farkas
AFarkas@phoenix.princeton.edu (Internet) AFarkas@pucc (Bitnet)
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Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 08:39:43 CST
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From:         David Child <U56155@UICVM.UIC.EDU>
Subject:      Re: WPWin does not WYSIWIG

Carsten Alexander said he had problems with no WYSIWIG in 5.1 and should
he get 5.2.  I got the 5.2 upgrade in December (U.S. version) and must
report that in tables (I haven't tried the equations problem that Carsten
provided) my decimally aligned numbers did not appear the same on the
Windows screen as they did on the printed page.  However, I was more or
less prepared for that to be the case based on experiences with 5.1 in
September.  Fortunately, using the Print Preview (I put it on the button
bar because I was using it so often :(  ) did allow me to get what I
wanted.  Incidentally, I was using the PrimeType (Type 1 not TrueType)
printer and screen fonts with 5.2.  (In the fall I was using WPWin's
drivers for the HP LJIII.)

However, there were some other advantages to getting the upgrade, such
as Grammatik 5.0 with the U.S. version.  Curious as to what Grammatik
would do with its readme file, I checked the file and found that the program
did not like the use of the numeral 5 (wanted five instead), that it
found some sentences poorly written, and that there was a typo!
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Date:         Fri, 22 Jan 1993 01:10:00 EST
From:         "Roger B. Grinde" <RBG103@PSUVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Converting files to Word for Windows and back...

Jud Kenney writes...
>A friend of mine need to supply a client (he does consulting) with final docs
>in Word for Windows format, and all he has is WordPerfect for Windows, and
>will
>not buy Word or learn it...  Is there a format he can use that will translate
>the WPWin files correctly in EVERY way, columns, borders, fonts, etc?

Seems to me I remember a saying..."The customer is always right"  :-)
In an ideal world, MAYBE you could count on this to work.  As we all
know, the software development, maintenance, & upgrade process is far
from ideal, and I would apply this to a word processor saving a file
in another format (i.e., good luck!) (IMHO).  Word for Windows is not
that expensive...especially if your friend is making money with it.

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Roger B. Grinde         RBG103@psuvm.psu.edu
Department of Industrial Engineering
Penn State University
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From: cellis@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (Charles Ellis)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.wpwin-l
Subject: Re: High resolution screen?
Date: 27 Jan 93 13:45:14 GMT
Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 02115, USA

In article <WPWIN-L%93012707295189@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU> AO_LL@HNYKUN51.BITNET writes:
>Some of our users of WP for Windows are complaining that they can't read
>the text and see the icons very well. Thus I have a few questions:
>1. Which most readable font do you prefer to see on the screen?
>2. What kind of color monitor should you advise: VGA, SVGA, XVGA...?
>3. What resolution (600x400,800x600,1000x800,...) do you recommend?
>4. What are your experiences?

----
I think the real issue here is not VGA vs higher resolutions, it is
probably the dot pitch of the monitor.

I have no problem with normal icons or type sizes of 10 point with my
NEC 2A which has .28 dot pitch.  However the fuzziness of "cheap"
monitors with .39 dot pitch drives me crazy. I think that .31 pitch
monitors are borderline at best.

I do my WP word processing in VGA mode (640x480) with this monitor.
----
Charles Ellis - Biology Dept. - Northeastern University - Boston MA

   cellis@lynx.northeastern.edu  or  ellis@nuhub.northeastern.edu
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Date:         Thu, 28 Jan 1993 16:21:30 CST
From:         Terry Lewis <##30@UTMARTN.BITNET>
Subject:      Updating printer information

I am new to this list so please forgive me if this has come up before.
I am running version 5.1 with a release date of 4/30/92.  I am using the
windows print drivers.  I have the Apple LaserWriter IINT chosen as my
printer.  If I go in and for example use control panel and switch from
manual to continuous feed, the next time I load wpwin, it takes 10
minutes to update printer information on my 486 machine!  Any ideas
what's causing this and what I can do to prevent it?

Thanks!

Terry Lewis     KC4YLK
##30@UTMARTN.BITNET
Computer Programmer/Analyst
University of Tennessee, Martin
102 Cooper Hall
Martin, TN  38238
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From: TBACKMAN@FINABO.ABO.FI (Timo B{ckman)
Subject: WPG -> ?
Organization: Abo Akademi University, Finland
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 06:52:16 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24

Hi!

I have a little problem. I need to convert one of the *.wpg graphics files
to some other format, so that I could use it in a sheet that's made with
Corel Draw. Could somebody please tell me if this is possible and how it
could be made. Thanks in advance,


Timo B{ckman

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Timo Backman (Historian in exile)		       Internet: TBACKMAN@ABO.FI
Faculty of Theology, Abo Akademi University	       Bitnet:   TBACKMAN@FINABO
SF-20500 Abo, Finland				       Telefax:   +358-21-654835
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Date:         Wed, 27 Jan 1993 13:25:00 N
From:         AO_LL@HNYKUN51.BITNET
Subject:      High resolution screen?

Some of our users of WP for Windows are complaining that they can't read
the text and see the icons very well. Thus I have a few questions:
1. Which most readable font do you prefer to see on the screen?
2. What kind of color monitor should you advise: VGA, SVGA, XVGA...?
3. What resolution (600x400,800x600,1000x800,...) do you recommend?
4. What are your experiences?

Please mail to the list. Thanks in advance.

Leon Leijtens
Academic Hospital Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
ao_ll@aznvx1.azn.nl
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Date:         Thu, 28 Jan 1993 12:38:37 CST
From:         Patty <CS003@UKANVM.BITNET>
Subject:      forms

Is there any way to convert the paper sizes you established in WordPerfect 5.1
for WP4WIN? I am using the WordPerfect printer drivers in WP4WIN, yet none of
my paper size options are there.

Patty Crowell                 BITNET: cs003@ukanvm
University of Kansas        INTERNET: cs003@ukanvm.cc.ukans.edu
School of Medicine - Wichita    PHONE: 316-261-2605
Teaching-->the art of imparting knowledge without possessing it
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From: iversen@dsfys1.fi.uib.no (Per Steinar Iversen)
Subject: PostScript header file in WP
Followup-To:  bit.listserv.wpwin-l
Keywords: PostScript, WP, letterhead
Reply-To: iversen@vsfys1.fi.uib.no
Organization: Department of Physics, University of Bergen, Norway
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 11:48:54 GMT



I am asking this questions for another user here who has switched from using 
LaTeX to WP under Windows: He has a PostScript file that creates a nice custom 
letter head, this was easy to include in letters when using LaTeX. How can he
continue to use this file with WP? It is not really necessary that it can be 
seen on the WP screen when editing.

Thanks for any information on this.  

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From: pjk39593@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jud Kenney)
Subject: Converting files to Word for Windows and back...
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:20:22 GMT
Keywords: converting, word, windows

A friend of mine need to supply a client (he does consulting) with final docs
in Word for Windows format, and all he has is WordPerfect for Windows, and will
not buy Word or learn it...  Is there a format he can use that will translate
the WPWin files correctly in EVERY way, columns, borders, fonts, etc?

Please Help!

-- 
The opinions stated here are my own, and not endorsed by or supported by
the University of Illinois.

pjk39593@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu			Jud Kenney, Student-at-Large
Organization: K.U.Leuven - Academic Computing Center
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 16:03:11 +01
From: <GHGAOAT@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.wpwin-l
Subject: buying wpwin

I have read that a lot of the readers of this newsgroup has bought its wp for
windows.

What I wanted to ask to all those registrated users: how long did it take
before you got your wpwin?

I ordered wp for win 5.1 in September 1992 and I still don't have it. Maybe I
should already order wpwin 6.0. Then I have it when before 1994.

--->David
From: basamson@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Pianoman, the Porsche Afficianado)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.wpwin-l
Subject: Change Printer Driver to Windows Problem
Date: 23 Jan 93 18:50:38 -0500
Organization: Miami University Academic Computer Service"

I've just started using WPWIN over WP and have enjoyed it immensely.  until 
now.  I want to use Windows fonts instead of the WPWIN fonts for my printer 
because the WPWIN printer driver only allows me 4 different types of fonts (I 
have an Epson LQ-570).

Well, according to the manual, this is a simple process.  Just go to "Select 
Printer" under the "File" menu and <select> WINDOWS instead of WORDPERFECT.  
Right?  Wrong.  When I try to select it, the following error pops up:

"Error updating printer information.  Most probable cause is not enough memory 
 and/or disk space."

Neither memory or disk space should be a problem.  I have over 11MB disk space 
free and over 3.5MB memory free when WPWIN is running.  (These stats are from 
HP's Dashboard for Windows.)  Am I doing something wrong?  Do I have to 
reinstall WPWIN with the Windows driver selected?  There has to be a better 
(and quicker) way.

Any help would be appreciated.  I'm sick of only 4 fonts when I have over 20 
Windows True Type fonts available.

Brian

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From: rreiner@nexus.yorku.ca (Richard Reiner)
Subject: Open letter re. WPwin 5.2 bug
Organization: York University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:11:18 GMT

I have sent the following letter to WordPerfect technical support
<73760.2460@compuserve.com>.  I suggest that any of you who are also
experiencing the serious bug described in it join me in lobbying them
for a release on Compuserve and the Internet of a fixed WIN2WRS.EXE.


    To: WordPerfect support <73760.2460@compuserve.com>
    Subject: WPWin 5.2 italics bug
    Status: OR

    When I print italicized text with WPWin 5.2 using a Windows printer
    driver, it is printed with irregular letterspacing: there are ugly gaps
    in the middle of words, and the letters are placed with uneven
    whitespace between them.  This happens on all three of my Windows
    printer drivers (QMS PS-820, Star NX1000, and WinFax 2.0).

    Also, italicized text does not display as italic in Print Preview (it
    displays as ordinary Roman text).

    It seems that the problem is in WIN2WRS.EXE -- when I replace this file
    with the version from WPWin 5.1 and then delete my WRS files and allow
    them to be rebuilt, the italicization problem goes away; however I then
    get an "Updating Printer Information" pause every time I switch printers,
    so this is not a satisfactory solution.

    Since the inability to print decent-looking italic text is a serious
    inconvenience, it seems to me that it would be an excellent idea to
    release a fixed version of WIN2WRS.EXE on Compuserve and on the
    Internet, or at least on the WP BBS, rather than making all us users
    suffer for three months until the next interim release -- several other
    major software firms do this kind of thing regularly.

    Does this seem like a possibility?

	      Thanking you for your attention, and hoping for a response,

	      Richard Reiner

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Richard Reiner..............rreiner@nexus.yorku.ca..............416-538-3947

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From: allendoerfer@mzdmza.zdv.uni-mainz.de (Carsten Allendoerfer)
Subject: WPWin does not WYSIWIG
Reply-To: allendoerfer@mzdmza.zdv.uni-mainz.de
Organization: Johannes-Gutenberg Univ. Mainz
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 09:12:31 GMT

Hello,

That's no joke. WPWin 5.1 really doesn't WYSIWYG!!! 

Write the following text and you will see that the equitation box is on 
the top of the 5th 'World'. On the right side of the box there is much 
space where the box should normally appear. 
If you delete the justification code the equitation appears
at the right position. You can print the text without any mistakes, 
only the screen output is wrong.

======================================================================
[Papier G/A:21c x 29,7c;aktuelles Windows-Formular][L/R
Rand:3c;3c] [Schrift:*Times New Roman  <TT>
12pt][Zeilenausrtg.:Blocksatz] Hello World Hello World Hello
World Hello World Hello World[Formelbox:1;;] Hello
World[NZ]Hello World.[FNZ]
======================================================================

[Formelbox:1;;] is :  'x = 1 over 2'   insert with the equitation editor 
(select position 'in line' form the options menu)

The codes in the text are in german, because I use the german 
version of WPWin.
I will try to translate them, but I don't know how they are
exactly called in english:

[Papier G/A:21c x 29,7c;...] = [Papersize:21c x 29.7c;normal Windows Size]    
       that's DIN A4
[L/R Rand:3c;3c] = [L/R Margin:3c;3c] 
       leave 3 cm on both sides free
[Schrift:*Times New Roman  <TT> 12pt] = [Font:*Times New Roman <TT> 12pt]    
       standard Times New Roman (form Win3.1) 
[Zeilenausrtg.:Blocksatz] ?=? [Justify:Full]                          
       use full justification (left and right margin)
[Formelbox:1;;] = [Equatationbox:1;;] 
       insert with the equitation editor: 'x = 1 over 2'
[NZ] ?=? [CR]  
       means an soft CR (don't insert, WP does)
[FNZ]  [CR/LF]
       means a hard CR

You don't need all the codes. I just wanted to make sure that you can 
reproduce exactly what I did see.

I'm thinking about buying the update to WPWin 5.2, but I don't want to 
get the same mistake again. So could anybody please try out, if this 
problem appears in WPWin 5.2 too.

If you want to try it out look for the binary file, which I will post to 
the same group. (UUencoded)

Thanks   
   Carsten Allendoerfer


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Carsten Allendoerfer            INTERNET: ALLENDOERFER@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE
Ginsterweg 8                              ZDV, University of Mainz
W-6090 Ruesselsheim
Germany
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Date:         Sun, 24 Jan 1993 12:33:56 EST
From:         Steven Yoon <SYOON@BROWNVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Command line switch to eliminate video memory problem when using
              svga

Hi,

I was told by a wp tech that wpwinfil error I get often is due to svga (10xx by

7xx) resolution and wpwin trying to access same memory address.  He told me

that you can issue a command line (/ something) when starting wpwin and
avoid this problem.  I have lost the "something" that I am suppose to issue.
If anyone know what this is please reply.  Thanks in advance.  BTW I am still
using WPWIN 5.1.

Steven Yoon
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Date:         Wed, 27 Jan 1993 13:39:00 N
From:         AO_LL@HNYKUN51.BITNET
Subject:      Quattro Pro pictures

Not so long ago there was a question about graphics from Quattro Pro, if these
graphics could be read into a WP for Windows document.

If there was an answer to this question, I must have missed it. Does anyone
know if this is possible? Are the pictures as good in detail as they are in
Quattro Pro?


Leon Leijtens
Academic Hospital Nijmegen, The Netherlands
ao_ll@aznvx1.azn.nl
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Newsgroups: bit.listserv.christia
Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:18:07 CST
From:         A16905@ITESO.BITNET
Subject:      Re: Mormon/LDS Discussion

I also agree with Scott (strange, we are both RCs) but LDS is a very special
case, I mean, I question their sincerity (not of the people in that church)
but the doctrinal system in itself, I think it doesn't seek the Truth
wholeheartedly. That's just an opinion, and of course, there are worse
things than LDS (like JW, for example).

Shalom,
Memo.
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Date:         Fri, 22 Jan 1993 11:28:02 -0500
From:         "jones, mark" <JMJONES@UGA.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Countries Turning to God

Marissa,
I would love to hear about the women who were not pregnant and
received abortions. She mentioned a *statistic* (doo dee doo doo doo dee
doo doo Twilight Zone)...about how many abortions she personally had
performed and it was astronomical. I was hesitant to report it lest I
heard it wrong. She did say that the last month that she worked in the
mill she worked part time, and earned a pay check that was over $13000.00
Not bad for a part time job. I couldn't believe that they are actually
paid on a straight commission- x dollars per baby. She also said that in
addition to the many thousands of baby's she had killed, she had asked
God's forgiveness for killing one woman and maming another during her
"career". I *think* she said that statistically, (mood music) 1 in 500
ladies will suffer severe complications from a routine abortion.
Looking forward to hearing your info Marissa.....Mark
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Date:         Wed, 27 Jan 1993 08:40:35 CST
From:         A16905@ITESO.BITNET
Subject:      Re: Mormon/LDS

Yup, but What is de doctrine of 'baptism of the dead' ?

Shalom,
Memo.
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