[Coco] The terrible Scripsit

[Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)]

iI still don't get why ms word and also libre office have issues with
bullet item sizes and also tabbing.

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Aaron Banerjee <spam_proof at verizon.net>wrote:

>
> The reason I didn't particularly care for Color Scripsit wasn't because
> there was anything wrong with the program per se (considering the time in
> which it was written -- and besides, I didn't have a disk drive).  Even
> then, the Coco's 32 column screen made writing/composing awkward.  I also
> used Scripsit on a Model III, which wasn't so bad.  When I eventually got a
> Coco 3, I switched to Word Power, which, for its day was pretty good.
>
> Word processors most certainly aren't by any means perfect today.  I have
> plenty of frustrations with Microsoft Word...
>
>
> On Feb 11, 2013, at 10:08 AM, Luis Fernández wrote:
>
>  The other day I read the whole manual Scripsit Cartridge, and I was
>> surprised that I had problems.
>> I had not ever used, but is supposed to be a quality package Tandy
>> Initially, there is no way to record to disk, I know it's a cartridge,
>> but I think by that time there was the MULTIPAK.
>> Once you start to write I noticed that it was very slow, luckily has
>> keyboard buffer and key repeat, great success.
>> Of course I noticed that either works in graphic form is much less true
>> lowercase, and although the width can be up to 32 characters, does not
>> exceed 80 characters, shoddy and by that time it had already compressed
>> printers with characters who obtained 132 characters in a line.
>> Nor does it justify text, I know, it is not easy to move space fractions
>> of a letter, at the time, but might well have introduced spaces between
>> words, starting from the end of the line, and then adjust the text.
>> Then I noticed that leverages either 64K, but if it works on computers
>> with 16k and 4k. could have moved the basic if the routines needed, or have
>> used 32k more.
>> You could also edit files much larger, unlimited memory, using the floppy
>> It seems a Tandy package. These are characterized by great attention to
>> detail
>> It could be in a hurry, but the package scripsit II also suffers from
>> some of the same problems, improved speed, but still not saved to disk, and
>> does not accept 4K, do not use the disk as temporary storage, of course
>> improved and everything else and can work professionally, but for me has
>> too many positioning commands.
>> I am making an attempt in basic word processing, it's just curiosity, to
>> see if it is possible, and without intention of that is great, I think with
>> 20-50 lines of code to do something like Scripsit, then tell them
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