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- From: markw@wc.novell.com (Mark Wittenberg)
- Subject: Re: TextEdit, International Scripts and others....
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- Date: 9 Nov 92 20:08:34 GMT
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- In <1992Nov8.232151.3134@mercury.unt.edu> mcmains@unt.edu (Sean McMains) writes:
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- >One of the main reasons that many (read "All") wordprocessors don't use
- >the TextEdit routines is that these routines are currently limited to
- >about 32,000 characters. Anything that wants to use more than this number
- >of characters must provide its own routines for text handling. Therefore,
- >one would be hard pressed to come up with a wordprocessor that will
- >likely be able to used instantly under the Arabic/Hebrew system software.
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- >Sean McMains | mcmains@unt.edu
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- That's why no "real" wordprocessor uses TextEdit, but not why they don't
- use the Script Manager. I've been told that the SM is just too slow, but
- I'm not sure that I really believe that it's true.
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- /markw
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