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Re: (Summary) Word/W4W/WP: Which is best?

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From: WRH7
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 02:45
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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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