[Ipg-smz] Style your Google Docs to look like WordStar

[Tom Henderson]

And my first Queue book was _The Osborne Portable Computer_!

I learned Wordstar on an Altos system long before.... then on S-100 systems.

Tom

On 11/19/19 10:47 PM, Mac McCarthy via Ipg-smz wrote:
> I wrote/adapted the Wordstar user manual for the Osborne!
>
> Mac
>
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 7:35 PM Tom Henderson via Ipg-smz 
> <ipg-smz at netpress.org <mailto:ipg-smz at netpress.org>> wrote:
>
>     Seymour Rubenstein always knew his secret.
>
>     I wrote six books in Wordstar.... and helped modify the MP/M
>     version, long ago.
>
>     Tom
>
>
>     On 11/19/19 2:02 PM, Dan Rosenbaum via Ipg-smz wrote:
>>
>>     Wait. I thought you wrote in vi.
>>
>>     d
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>>     *From: *Ipg-smz <ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org>
>>     <mailto:ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org> on behalf of Steven
>>     Vaughan-Nichols via Ipg-smz <ipg-smz at netpress.org>
>>     <mailto:ipg-smz at netpress.org>
>>     *Reply-To: *<ipg-smz at netpress.org> <mailto:ipg-smz at netpress.org>
>>     *Date: *Tuesday, November 19, 2019 at 1:41 PM
>>     *To: *<ipg-smz at netpress.org> <mailto:ipg-smz at netpress.org>
>>     *Cc: *Steven Vaughan-Nichols <sjvn at vna1.com> <mailto:sjvn at vna1.com>
>>     *Subject: *Re: [Ipg-smz] Style your Google Docs to look like WordStar
>>
>>     I approve of this plan. ^KD
>>
>>     Steven
>>
>>     On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 1:22 PM Phil Shapiro via Ipg-smz
>>     <ipg-smz at netpress.org <mailto:ipg-smz at netpress.org>> wrote:
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>>           We all know that sjvn would much prefer to be writing in
>>         WordStar (from circa 1981), using the CP/M operating system.
>>
>>              Well, now you can, using this importable style for
>>         Google Docs.
>>
>>         https://userstyles.org/styles/130410/wordstar-customizable-theme-for-google-docs
>>
>>
>>                 Fun to have open on your laptop when you're at
>>         conferences.
>>
>>                  You just tell people nonchalantly, "I prefer writing
>>         in WordStar. I just upgraded to the latest version of WordStar.
>>
>>         (pause)  Do you use WordStar, too?"
>>
>>              phil
>>
>>         Don't forget to change to Courier font -- for the real thing
>>         experience.
>>
>>
>>
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>>         "Wisdom begins with wonder." - Socrates
>>         "Learning happens thru gentleness."
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