Re: OF indicator confusion

I've been a proponent of externally-defined PRTFs since working at Help Systems around 1990 - they used to have a product called PrintCoder that was a much better designer than RLU, but they decided to sell it and concentrate on automated operations, not diffuse their energies in other areas. I think it is out there under another name - maybe Gumbo's product.

I did learn to use RLU, although it's always a few minutes to get back to it, as we don't use PRTFs much here. Somehow it never seemed all that different to use PRTFs vs O-specs, just different keywords. But the Code Designer is cool.

Vern

At 07:47 AM 8/31/2007, you wrote:

I did the same thing, Tom: Internally-defined printer files. The only
way to define externally-described printer files was either manually,
which can be painful, or RLU, which is more painful. When WDSc came
bundled, though, and included Code Designer, my life changed
(hallelujah!). I still wind up fine-tuning the DDS manually upon
occasion, but by then it's just a matter of adding a keyword (HIGHLIGHT,
UNDERLINE, or such) here and there.

Is EXCPT even recognized by RSE as a free-form op-code? Since switching
to externally-described printer files, I haven't had to use it, so I
wouldn't know.


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