From: bashley101@gmail.com   
      
   On 8/13/24 2:51 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Tue, 13 Aug 2024 08:40:55 -0700, The Real Bev wrote:   
   >   
   >> A curious WP thing:  I temped for some title insurance people for a few   
   >> weeks. They had a system where knowledgeable people would fill in   
   >> (pencil) a template with codes indicating various descriptions etc. for   
   >> the drones to type in.  After a while I (a drone) realized that the   
   >> whole system was done with Word Perfect macro codes, a pretty slick   
   >> application.   
   >   
   > So they were reinventing the kind of thing that typesetting markup systems   
   > (troff/groff, TEX, SGML) have been doing for decades.   
      
   Possibly, but these were generating legal documents with a lot of   
   legalisms of various sorts and combinations, not just making pretty   
   documents. Same thing, I guess.  I once did some sort of document using   
   something that required typing in codes by hand and found it extremely   
   unpleasant.   
      
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   Cheers, Bev   
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