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- Subject: Re: (Summary) Word/W4W/WP: Which is best?
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 21:45:59 EST
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- Just to add my opinion as a follow-up to the follow-up: I've been with
- WordPerfect since 5.0 so I'm more than familiar with the interface, despite
- certain changes after 5.0. However, the main reason I stayed with WP was
- the WordPerfect Character Sets, i.e. special characters that WP will either
- create as graphic images or from fonts that may exist in whatever printer.
- I transliterate a lot of Arabic, Persian, and South Asian languages such as
- Urdu and Hindi, so the ability to produce vowels with macrons and consonants
- with dots and double dots beneath them is a necessity. When I migrated to
- Windows, the choice of a Windows-based word processor hinged on this.
- WordPerfect for Windows was the only package that I found could do this.
- Again, pretty selfish, but hey, it was my money.
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