At 08:06 AM 3/10/98 -0500, you wrote:
>hyperlinks, etc. was child's play. And talk about Reveal Codes!
>Interleaf was even programable at the formating code level so that you
>could produce several differently formated versions of the same document
>based on the results of a query or user input. And that was in 1992!!
>
Up until 1996, I used WordStar to do these same things.  This is the
biggest advantage that text-based word-processors had over graphical
WYSIWYG (most of the time) word-processors.  It was always easy to see your
formatting and conditional printing code.  I'm constantly fighting with
Word to get it to do these things now .. It isn't easy when you cannot see
where the boundaries between conditional code are and formatting from a
paragraph mark several pages after the current text is affecting your output.