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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > > Abiword apparently renames RTFs to DOCs, and Word will open them.
> >
> > If you tell it to export WORD it exports rtf, I think.
>
> Export?  Do you mean "Save As"?
Probably.

> Anyway, why would you want to write Word files?
> Aren't they always bigger than RTFs?


I was curious what the output as WORD would look like.  It looked just 
like the rtf output.

I don't write WORD so can't compare file sizes.

Both formats are quite bloated and I am starting to understand where the 
bloat comes from.  All the defaults are unnecessarily specified.  I sent 
someone a large translation (40K) in Wordperfect for DOS, and they assumed 
most of the file was lost in transmission because it was not as large as 
expected.

> > There is a vi in the busybox I compiled and I have vde under dosemu.
> > Could I type Ctrl-B to get a '{/b ' for instance?
>
> You could get a {/b in e3pi if you wanted.
> Just put the keybinding in .Xdefaults.

Can I only bind single keys, such as the F keys, or can I bind key 
combinations of Ctrl or Alt or Shift with F keys or letters?  The latter 
would let me reuse familiar WP keystrokes.   But WP uses F keys as toggles 
sometimes (bold and underline).

> Cheers,
> Steven

Sindi