High! Lawrence,
Ref: History of Word Processing..., dd.02-Sep-97, from: Lawrence Kellie
Although you'll find it off-topic (you can do so, for you're the
moderator) and you probably won't like it, I _am_ going to reply via
echo-mail.
 >->> I have to give a talk on the History of Word Processing (IBM
 >> If you get the info it would be interesting. Don't forget to put
 >> it up on this 'Conference'.
 LK> Since you are not the moderator of this echo, it is not your
 LK> place to counsel people what and what not to post here. 
 
This is answer is a bit childish, isn't it? He was only interested
in the information and politely asked the original poster to share it
with us. No need to react like this IMHO.
 
 LK> If the information that he is searching out is Word related, he is
 LK> welcome to post it. 
 
Thank you! Of course it is Word related (if he find out anything about 8
major versions of MS Word). I guess the original poster asked the same
question in all the word processor related echo's.
[To get more on-topic:]
Quite some time ago word processor became more or less DTP-like
packages. Although MS still distributes (and updates) a DTP program
(Publisher) most layout work can be done with a word processor such as
Word.
Ever since windows came around the WYSIWYG word processor was born. A
great improvement over the print examples most text mode based programs
produced. I still remember the days of doing layout and switching to and
fro the print example when adjusting the layout a little bit.
I still feel that the text editing facilities and the layout facilities
of a word processor should be seperated more.
I have to support people that use Word and many get confused with the
wealth of options and possibilities.
 LK> Lawrence, Moderator, MS_WORD
I hope you didn't get too upset with me ;-)
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