Hi Lee,
I tend to stay with straight text options, such as LaTeX or (more
recently) Markdown.
With either of those plain-text formats, you can specify bold, italics,
underline, etc. but it just won't render on the laptop that way. All
you'll see there is the plain text, appropriately marked-up.
I played with LaTeX for a while but it was too fiddly; so I use Markdown
exclusively now.
All text that I write on the M-100 or M-102 will be transferred to the
"main machine" -- a linux desktop or laptop that I do all
post-processing on. I used a NADSBox for that file transfer, but there
are lots of M-100->PC solutions out there.
Regards, Bert
On 5/11/24 17:28, Lee Osborne wrote:
I'm a big fan of portable computers, and besides my beloved Model T, I
have an Amstrad NC100, a mid-90s machine in a similar form factor but
with a fairly sophisticated word processor on board. Like most machines
from that era, the word processor saves in an obsolete proprietary
format, but someone has written a clever BASIC program for it that
converts files to Rich Text Format. They can then, of course, be opened
up with Word on a modern PC, with formatting maintained.
The program is here: https://www.ncus.org.uk/utils.htm#nc_to_rtf
It got me wondering whether BASIC on the Model T could support something
similar. Obviously TEXT doesn't directly support bold, underline etc,
but it wouldn't be difficult to just use some symbols as on/off
indicators for these. Would it then be possible to use a BASIC program
like the one above to create a new file with the relevant RTF formatting
codes in it? I'm sure you see what I'm getting at here.
Maybe someone has already done something similar? Or there's a better
word processing program out there than TEXT?
It would be really helpful as I use my Model T for writing quite a lot.
I have a Backpack drive so transfer across to a PC is very simple. Do
let me know your thoughts on this!
Lee
