Re: [libreoffice-users] OTT keyboard customization

Thanks, Dennis. I've attached both a list of all the WS commands and the
.ott that supports a small but important sub-set of them. Unfortunately,
like I said, the .ott works in OO but not in LO... or I am doing something
wrong, perhaps?

Wordstar came packaged with my Kaypro II, the then cutting-edge luggable
that earned its keep with me for almost ten years beginning in the mid- to
late-70s... or was it, early 80s? Anyhow, in some respects its capabilities
-- most especially the virtually unknown WS for Windows, which was more a
DTP program than an editor -- have still never been equaled.

All I'm trying to arrange in LO are a few of the navigating/editing commands
that I've painstakingly preserved over the past several years working with
OO in the attached .ott file.

As some will realize, keyboard tweaking of OO/LO is a major pain, since the
editing/navigating commands are not organized in anything like rational
order. For example, why aren't "cursor up," "cursor down," "cursor left,"
and "cursor right" juxtaposed, in the listing? And the word movement
equivalents: "word left" and "word right" -- why aren't they there, too,
along with "page up," "para up," etc. As it is now, you have to fish all
over the place to find the key assignments you want.

Again, my thanks for the interest in helping.   ###





On 30 May 2011 12:06, Dennis E. Hamilton <dennis.hamilton@acm.org> wrote:

> That will be interesting.  I'd love to see a list of the WordStar keyboard
> commands.
>
> I remember using WordStar and also their text Editor (TextStar , I think)
> but it has been a long time -- around 30 years), both on CP/M-80.  WordStar
> 2000 on MS-DOS was not so hot and I turned my back on it.  (My next favorite
> was Borland Sprint, based on a word processor from the UK, I believe.)
>
> Now, the way these things works the various control-key combinations that
> started out in WordStar tended to find their way into later products, even
> though WordStar itself is long gone.
>
> There is an interesting account of this in Wikipedia, <
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wordstar#Interface>.  It mentions that the
> Turbo Pascal IDE (on a text interface) used the WordStar diamond, and I
> believe the Microsoft Editor, ME, designed for developers (and that I
> favored for a long time) also supported some of the Word Star keyboard
> command sequences.
>
>  - Dennis
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: planas [mailto:jslozier@gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2011 21:22
> To: users@libreoffice.org
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] OTT keyboard customization
>
> Alex
>
> On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 07:17 +0700, Alex Mavro wrote:
>
> > Greetings -- I have a ws.ott template file that allows me to use most
> > WordStar navigation commands -- the cursor diamond, etc -- in Open
> Office.
> > However, the same file does not work in LibreOffice... Is there any
> > reason for this?
> >
> > Alex in Bangkok
>
> I am not sure, I would need to see some typical commands/key combinations.
> I am not very familiar with WordStar, I understand it is abandonware. I
> vaguely remember it from about 20 years ago but never used it.
> --
> Jay Lozier
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