3.898 multilingual WordPerfect, cont. (81)

Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca)
Wed, 3 Jan 90 20:26:57 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 898. Wednesday, 3 Jan 1990.


(1) Date: Wed, 03 Jan 90 08:29:06 EST (11 lines)
From: ZAK@NIHCU
Subject: Re: 3.893 multilingual WordPerfect 5.1 (55)

(2) Date: Wed, 3 Jan 90 11:01:22 EST (18 lines)
From: Duane Harbin <DHARBIN@YALEVM>
Subject: Re: 3.893 multilingual WordPerfect 5.1 (55)

(3) Date: Wed, 3 Jan 90 03:05:14 EST (27 lines)
From: Itamar <B10@TAUNIVM>
Subject: Re: 3.893 multilingual WordPerfect 5.1 (55)

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Date: Wed, 03 Jan 90 08:29:06 EST
From: ZAK@NIHCU
Subject: Re: 3.893 multilingual WordPerfect 5.1 (55)

Concerning Keith Handley's entry about WordPerfect and non-English
languages--

Please let the rest of us know what operating system you're referring to
when talking about computer applications. Since you didn't mention it, my
guess is that you're talking about a DOS-based system. Not everyone uses
IBM machines.
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Date: Wed, 3 Jan 90 11:01:22 EST
From: Duane Harbin <DHARBIN@YALEVM>
Subject: Re: 3.893 multilingual WordPerfect 5.1 (55)

I think it should be pointed out that WordPerfect will still not support
right-to-left word processing. So one must still input Hebrew backwards
and format the line breaks oneself. Even if 6.0 is to be a graphics
application, this limitation to truly multilingual word processing will
not necessarily be overcome.

Duane Harbin
Systems & Planning Manager
Yale University
Divinity School Library
409 Prospect Street
New Haven. CT 06511
USA
(203) 432-5296
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Date: Wed, 3 Jan 90 03:05:14 EST
From: Itamar <B10@TAUNIVM>
Subject: Re: 3.893 multilingual WordPerfect 5.1 (55)

Sorry to sound like Cato (in reverse), but in view of the hairaising
account of Keith Handley on WordPerfect, it is evident once more how far
more superior Nota Bene is for NORMAL, EASY and FAULTLESS multilingual
writing, as I believe it is in any other aspect as well. Indeed, after
a long article about the popularity of WP in the US, PC-Magazine's
Mendelson states that if you look for a non-graphical word processor,
you will find Nota Bene far superior to both WP and Word. As Willard
once wrote, the selection of word processors has become such a personal
matter that it would be foolish to get invloved in converting people.
But since so many reports about the inadequacies of Word Perfect have
appered on HUMANIST in recent months that I allow myself to humbly
suggest that perhaps SOME people (please don't get offended, all of you
who do not fall into this category) have selected WordPerfect becuase
they DID NOT KNOW of a better alternative for THEM.

In short, why not test several programs before you choose the one you
prefer? And if you need Hebrew, Greek (with accents), Russian,
Slavonic, Czech and French with German, possibly all in one document,
and wish to write all of these with the same ease you write your English
texts, without being reduced to a typewriter-like word processor, I
believe there is only one choice.

Itamar Even-Zohar.