Re: getting out of LaTeX


Tak To wrote:
Ruud Harmsen wrote:
28 Aug 2006 16:53:03 -0700: "Peter T. Daniels"
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Your tool can't even display 2 or more sections of the same document
at once by means of split windows?

"My tool"?? That's what you're now calling Word?


No comment.


It can display exactly 2 sections of a document at once by means of
split windows.

There's also a way to open more than one copy of a document, but I
don't remember how and I don't have any need to.


Just open it. Are you really that unfamiliar with Word?

Maybe there is a registry setting somewhere, but when you open
a .doc file a second time, the default behavior of Word is to
ask you if you mean to junk all the unsaved changes and revert
to the saved version on the disk. Either way you still have
only one window to the file.

Also, the default behavior of Word is that multiple invocations
(via the Start menu or by clicking ".doc" files) shares the
same process. (You can see all the processes in the system from
Task Manager.) I believe you can programmatically invoke
Word in separate processes, but then you would run into the
problem of Word failing to lock the file because it has
already been locked by another Word process.

I know that _once_ I found myself with multiple copies of a single
document (it named them *,doc1, *.doc2, etc.), so it can, somehow, be
done. Maybe it involves that silly Read-Only Mode.

.

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