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Anybody remeber the dos version of Wordperfect 5 or 5.5? It had a mode, AFAIK triggered by pressing F11 or was it F12 where every formatting operation like inserting a new page, bold or italics was displayed as a control sequence. Wordperfect didn't care if you five times marked a text as bold and required you to "unbold" five times to continue writing in regular font.

I used to be a wizzard operating in this mode and many of my school-mates reached out for me to get their homework assignment properly formatted.

Somehow this WP5.5 format reminds me of that Markdown extension. Thankfully markdown is much richer in semantics.




My mother published 5 books with WordPerfect and adamantly refused to learn any desktop publishing system that didn't have Reveal Codes.

When she says she doesn't understand what I do for a living, I tell her that I work with Reveal Codes, all day. It's more right than wrong.


"Reveal Codes" IIRC.




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