[8418] in Athena Bugs
decmips 7.3P: ez
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yandros@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Wed Oct 16 17:25:26 1991
From: yandros@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 91 17:26:20 -0400
To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: yandros@Athena.MIT.EDU
System name: podge
Type and version: KN01 7.3P
Display type: PMAX-MFB
What was the novice user you were trying to help trying to do?
He was trying to get ez to NOT justify his file that ended in .text
What was wrong:
Ez apparently turns on basic styles for both .txt and .text
file extensions. This is BAD. For ez to claim the .ez, .eq, .table,
etc extensions is fine; to claim .txt and .text is not.
In any event...
When said novice user came into the SIPB office, he wanted,
basically, to remove all of ez's formatting of his text. (NOTE: he
did not want any formatting done. No italics, no bold, nothing.)
Doing this with the present system, as near as I can tell, would
require him to:
edit his .preferences file, exit and restart ez.
or
bring the file up in emacs directly, and strip out all of the
ez formatting stuff, then write the file to a different directory
This person was using Athena for the second time.
What should have happened:
This person should not have been required to do either of the
two above. Rather, there should be an 'unformat' option to ez, even
if it needs to 'grab' .txt and .text. I realize this is probably not
a probleb for most people, but this person required non-justified text
for his class, and he shouldn't have had to jump through this many
hoops to get it.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
// ez-extensions in ahelp
EZ will provide you with one of its many different editing packages, called insets , each of which is appropriate to a different kind of information. The more commonly used extensions include
.eq which creates an eq document, for formatting equations.
.fad which creates a fad document, for animations.
.table which creates a table document, for tables and spreadsheets.
.raster which creates a raster document, for digitized pictures.
.zip which creates a zip document, for line drawings.
Here is a complete list of extensions and their object types supported at Athena:
.c ctext
.H ctext
.h ctext
.ch ctext
.ih ctext
.eh ctext
.eq eq
.raster raster
.table table
The following extensions are also available, but are unsupported. Use them at your own risk.
.fad fad
.zip zip
.champ chimp
.month month
.bimonth chomp
.el ltext
.lisp ltext
.m mtext
.mod mtext
.p ptext
.pas ptext
-C
