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I have been a long-time user of MS Word for the Mac, but, like many
others, I have become somewhat disenchanted with the latest release (and
5.1a seems unhappy on my PowerPC).  Accordingly, I have been looking at
the new Corel WordPerfect for the Mac 3.5, which not only has an
attractively priced academic version, but seems to be more Mac-like than
the new Word (which seems distinctly unMac-like -- indeed it seems very
Windows-like!).  In fact, I am poised to convert to WP, but one problem is
holding me back.

My work required that in my writing I switch back and forth between two
different fonts (an English font and an ancient Greek font).  This means
that within one paragraph there will be Greek words and phrases embedded
in the English text.  Since I have found that many of the English fonts
that look good in print are unpleasant to read on the screen, I have
typically worked in, say, Geneva, which is clear on the screen, but
redefined the normal style to something like Palatino or New Century
Schoolbook (fonts that match my Greek font and look good in print) before
printing.  Word can accept departures from a style and then return to the
style with a simple command (and so I use a keystroke to switch to Greek,
then toggle back to English with the return to style command -- Word 6.0.1
has changed this a little, but it can still be made to work easily).  WP
does not seem to recognize a departure from a style, and so I cannot find
a convenient way of changing only the English font in a document;
modifying styles changes all the Greek to English gibberish, and you do
not seem to be able to search and replace fonts (a feature which Word also
has).

Has anyone worked out a straightforward way of dealing with this kind of
situation?  The inability to incorporate more than one font into a style
strikes me as a serious limitation.  Although Hellenists doubtless
constitute a depressingly small group of users, there must be others who
work with more than one font at a time (linguists, scholars working in
various languages, mathematicians, etc.).

CGB

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Christopher G. Brown                 e-mail: pindar@julian.uwo.ca
Department of Classical Studies      phone:  (519) 661-3045 Ext. 4524
Talbot College                       fax:    (519) 661-3922
University of Western Ontario
London Canada  N6A 3K7