From: Eric Stork 
@Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 09:12:34 -0500
@Sender: semware-owner{at}sawasdi.apana.org.au



 asked about an "Outlining
Macro" for TSE; 
others pointed out that there is no such macro.  But that does not mean 
that one cannot use TSE to create outlined text to almost any degree of 
outlining that one wants.  I've done so  since the 1980s for my consulting 
reports, using TSE and its predecessor QEDIT.

However, it cannot be done directly, nor in GUI interface or WYSIWYG.   TSE 
is an editor, not a word processor.  I've used (and still use) TSE to 
prepare the input for an old DOS implementation of an nroff word processor 
(nr.exe, size only 75k bytes) that uses dot-commands to do virtually 
anything one might want to do with text, including outlining like 
1.2.3.4  or I.A.1.a.(1).(a). or whatever you might want.  Not only that, 
but nroff  provides the capability to write printer drivers for any printer 
for which you know the printer's formatting commands.

For those who may be too young to remember, nroff stood for "new
roff" used 
on PDP-70 UNIX machines; roff was the acronym for "run off", which was a 
word assembler used on those machines.  That was in pre-word-processor days 
(as I recall, Wordstar was the first word processor).  In 1979 or so, 
someone ported nroff to CP/M (which is what I started out with in 
1980);  in 1987 a chap called Alan Holub wrote  a DOS implementation of 
nroff that was published by M&T Publishing, Inc., of Redwoord City, CA.  I 
think I paid about $40 for nr.exe and its manual -- a fabulously low price 
for a word processor that I still use today in preference to MS-WORD or 
WORD PERFECT.

Eric



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  Eric Stork, Arlington VA.
    estork2{at}comcast.net
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