some simple basic standard text handling pls

[StevenWWinters]

There are other workflows however. And there are also corrections made once in the DTP app.

In any event, these are not biggies, but they wouldn't be that difficult to implement either...

[Big Frank]

There are other workflows however

+1

[amoore]

Throughout 26 years of DTP, I have routinely composed the text directly in my DTP application (primarily Corel Ventura). That includes thousands of pages of software documentation, plus marketing materials and all kinds of other documents. I have rarely gotten content from someone else in Word files. When I have, I always run the text through an ASCII editor to strip it of all Word formatting and behind-the-scenes baggage. I don't even paste text from one Word document into another Word document without doing the ASCII routine first. I've been bitten too many times by Word's "peculiarities".

Similarly, I compose text directly in XDP. If I'm going to paste from anything, it's a txt file.

[Fin]

Same as amoore here, probably as many years. CorelDraw until I found Xara, thousands of pages of curriculum and game books, etc. Wouldn't dream of using Word for the very reasons as amoore stated and would NEVER import Word into a web page document without converting first to a text file. Word has better spell checker imho, but that's all. X9 has much better control of typography, me thinks.

Tom

[mwenz]

I am only at year 24 (1989). Started out using Ventura under the GEM interface on an XT, then an AT, and when I got my first 386 I thought I was in heaven. By my first 486 PC, I think Corel had bought Xerox's Ventura Publisher.

Most of that time I collaborated with others, all text was linked/imported into VP. Never had an issue. VP's scheme of being able to two-way text files was wonderful--as long as you could keep the others involved from mucking with the VP codes in the text files. VP is a product that I hope Corel is now kicking itself from killing off. Best long document layout application there was. I keep an XP Pro computer around just for updating tech and user manuals for a couple companies.

Well, I had been doing using the XP Pro with VP. I am now in the process of moving some of those documents into Quark, another application I have long used. As well as ID. And PagePlus. But in none of those applications do I author the originating text. None. A word processor is far better for writing than a layout application. Simply quicker, less obtrusive. Now, do I add last minute stuff? Sure. But I get text originally from other sources and import it. Edits from then on are in-app, but not the original flow. Typing in ID in a several hundred page illustrated manual is a PITA. If I could re-import and maintain formatting and, most importantly, anchored frames, I would.

Mike