Text mode WP is the reason I hate almost all word processors, everything else is tepid goat piss by comparison.
replyA bit over dramatic, but then again this HN.
replyI remember using WordPerfect in that era and never understanding what that feature was. It seemed implausible to me that it was actually protecting human widows and orphans, but I couldn't imagine what it had to do with text layout!
replyKinda cool when you learn the answer to something you were wondering about decades ago.
replyAbsolutely! Unfortunately for me, I probably wondered about this 35 years ago and learned the answer 15 years ago. Otherwise, I could be one of today's lucky 10,000 in the xkcd 1053 sense.
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