"J. P. Gilliver (John)" on Tue, 24 Mar 2020
22:16:33 +0000 typed in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general the
following:
On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 at 12:03:04, pyotr filipivich
wrote:
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" on Mon, 23 Mar 2020
09:58:37 +0000 typed in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general the
following:
On Sat, 21 Mar 2020 at 09:26:16, pyotr filipivich
wrote:
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I recall a desktop publishing SW package which had "at least two
ways to do everything." Which was kind of neat, but kind of a PITA as
you had to learn both ways.

Why did you have to learn both ways?

Sort of "why is this not working right? Oh, that's the other way,
and it is incomplete!".

Ah, so it didn't _really_ have two ways of doing things (or at least
some things), just _claimed_ that it did. (I didn't spot the quote marks
in what you said the first time.)

I do remember giving the presentation to the class and saying
something to that effect.
As I am remembering, it seemed to have two sets of codes to insert
for Italics / Bold. For some reason I'm remembering that some codes
had a "Start here" and an "end here".
Or I could be thinking of HTML, of which I've never gone into at
any great depth.
It's been a few decades.
Windows, of course, has multiple ways to do most things (most of which
we here probably all use without thinking).
There is always an element of "Okay, I know what I want to do, how
do I do it 'here'?" where 'here' is a programming language, GUI,
command line, wood shop, car dashboard, etc.

Yes. I'm not good at learning different UIs: I'm reasonably familiar
with Windows (up to 7), but find Android (and iOS) very difficult. Which
I don't think they really are - it's just that they're very different to
what I'm used to. (W10 is also different, but in a different way.)

Yes. I'm hacking word and firefox over my wife's shoulder. as in
"Aah, try clicking on that thingy there."
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