From: Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com   
      
   On Sat, 11 Mar 2023 03:24:07 -0400, Mike Spencer wrote:   
   > Ha! Until ca. '92 I used -- I forget, was it WordStar? -- a markup word   
   > processor on CP/M with a dot matrix printer, business letters,   
   > blacksmithing newsletter, assorted.   
      
   Been there, done that... WordStar was mainly intended to be used as a   
   word processor for writing letters formatted as well as they could be   
   back at the time when they were written on matrix printers with a fixed   
   font with up to 80 characters on each line. WordStar automatically added   
   some spaces to the documents so both the left and right margins became   
   aligned which made the documents look really impressive back then.   
      
   I also used WordStar as an editor for programming Basic on my CP/M   
   system. Some years later, when I on university were supposed to use emacs   
   for programming I initially wanted to remap the keys in emacs to the way   
   they were used in WordStar, but I soon dropped that idea and learned   
   emacs instead.   
      
   > Is there an online tutorial PDF for Latex that's simple-minded?   
      
   For that quick tutorial purpose I have used   
   http://www.ddg.lth.se/perf/handledning/handledning.pdf   
   which has been great for me, but might be less useful for you as it is   
   written in swedish.   
      
   For reference I have used https://icl.utk.edu/~mgates3/docs/latex.pdf but   
   it is more of a reference document than a tutorial.   
      
   Some googling seem to point at some tutorial pages about Latex, but those   
   are web pages rather than pdf and I can't say how good they are as I   
   haven't used them myself.   
      
      
   regards Henrik   
      
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