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From: jeh@simpact.com
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Word Perfect 5.1 (Was Re: Help me defend LaTeX)
Message-ID: <714.2545b1c7@simpact.com>
Date: 25 Oct 89 20:14:47 GMT
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In article <595@caldwr.UUCP>, rfinch@caldwr.UUCP (Ralph Finch) writes:
> In article <5954@tank.uchicago.edu>, phd_jacquier@gsbacd.uchicago.edu writes:
>  . . .
>> 
>> The next version of word perfect might prove him right. ..
> 
> The president of WordPerfect came to Sacramento last week to
> demonstrate 5.1.  Main improvements over 5.0 are:
> 
> 1) Tables are far easier to set up.
> 2) Merge is easier.
> 3) Equations can be easily done.  They seem to be reminiscent of the
>    way troff does them, in that you type in the equation as if you had
>    read it out loud, but in WP 5.1 you can immediately preview.
> 4) Will generate graphical characters for those your printer doesn't
>    support directly.
> 5) Tabs can be relative to the margins.  Also when you change the tab
>    settings your text will change in real time, thus making it easier to
>    adjust.
> 6) Pull-down menus and mouse support.
> 7) Context-sensitive help (hurray!)
> 8) Dictionary hyphenation.
> 

But will it have automatic numbering of chapters/sections/subsections,
etc., and also of figures and tables, the ability to define new classes
of things like figures and tables with separate numbers, symbolic cross-
referencing of all that stuff (with \label and \ref), etc.?  

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