Word Perfect: in memorium

[hank smith]

hents
allways keep a windows box fore such things.
thanks
hank
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shane Wegner" <shane-keyword-speakup.aca783 at cm.nu>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 6:50 PM
Subject: Re: Word Perfect: in memorium


> On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 07:57:55PM -0500, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
> > Lots of folks seem to be missing Word Perfect 5.1 pretty badly. I was
> > going to say they seem to pine for it, but that would be too bad!!!
> 
> --- snip ---
> 
> One of the only remaining reasons I continue to have a
> Windows box is word processing.  You mention xml but afaik,
> xml doesn't know anything about fonts, emphasis, or even
> paragraphs.  In order to get all that, you have to write in
> a format like DocBook where you have to put everything
> inside <para tags.  That and pressing ctrl-b is a lot
> easier than writing <emphasis>my text here</emphasis>.  Oh
> and not to forget <itemisedlist> for bullets etc.
> 
> I'm no xml expert but doesn't changing fonts and sizes
> involve writing stylesheets for the document in question. 
> Maybe tex simplifies all this, I have never looked at it
> but imo, word processing still has its place and I haven't
> come across a good console app yet.
> 
> S
> 
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> Shane Wegner
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