text editing with speakup

[Charles Crawford]

Well, if that is the case then you are absolutely right.  Back to the 
drawing boards.

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, White, Matt wrote:

> You are not missing anything here.  Furthermore, WordPerfect uses a
> non-textual interface even though it is not a X application rendering it
> completely useless.
> 
> <quote who="Chuck Hallenbeck">
> > Seems to me that Word Perfect for Linux, if it existed, would
> > have the same problem that all proprietary software has: i.e., it
> > uses a proprietary format that assumes the availability of Word
> > Perfect for anyone wishing to work with the document. I know you
> > can make plain text files with WP, but why bother to use WP if
> > you want to make plain text files? What are the advantages of
> > Word Perfect for Linux that would be worth the limitations of a
> > proprietary file format?
> >
> > Or am I missing something?
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, jude dashiell wrote:
> >
> >> Only version of that I've ever run into came on infomagic disks and
> >> would need gnome or kde or some other form of x to run it.  It's for
> >> that reason I'd not use wp under Linux or even have it take up disk
> >> space here.
> >>
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