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

[Mark Brownstein]

I had a word processing business before I went both feet into writing. 
When I started using WordStar, I used a program called Smartkeys to map 
the Burroughs Redactron keyboard to WordStar. Eventually, I had to 
migrate over to WordStar.


On 11/19/2019 11:35 AM, Logan Harbaugh via Ipg-smz wrote:
>
> For me, it wasn’t the interface that I miss it was the ability to jump 
> to page 243 of a 400 page document in less than a split jiffy. No 
> distractions, no worrying about formatting, just plain writing. My 
> favorite was Xywrite on CP/M (on a Kaypro II), but the same themes apply.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Logan G. Harbaugh
> logan at lharba.com <mailto:logan at lharba.com>
> 530-243-1346
> 1547 Magnolia Ave.
> Redding, CA 96001
> www.lharba.com <http://www.lharba.com/>
>
> *From:*Ipg-smz [mailto:ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org] *On Behalf Of 
> *Phil Shapiro via Ipg-smz
> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 19, 2019 10:23 AM
> *To:* ipg-smz
> *Cc:* Phil Shapiro
> *Subject:* [Ipg-smz] Style your Google Docs to look like WordStar
>
>   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.
>
>
>
> --
> Phil Shapiro, pshapiro at his.com
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>
> "Wisdom begins with wonder." - Socrates
> "Learning happens thru gentleness."
>
> "We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from 
> real options."  David Suzuki
>
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