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From: djb@wjh12.harvard.edu (David J. Birnbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Greek WYSIWYG Wordprocessor
Message-ID: <443@wjh12.harvard.edu>
Date: 15 Jan 90 01:05:04 GMT
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Reply-To: djb@wjh12.UUCP (David J. Birnbaum)
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Nota Bene (by Dragonfly) is an excellent tool for Greek word
processing.  It is not, however, WYSIWYG, in the usual sense of
the term.  Specifically, it operates in text mode, rather than
graphics mode, although screen fonts are available for Greek and
many other character sets.  One feature of text mode is that the
screen display is monospaced.  Nota Bene knows that letters may have
variable width and it puts the correct number of characters on a
line, but that line may run off the right edge of your screen.
A ragged right margin on the screen may correspond to an even margin
on the printer.  Text mode is much faster than graphics mode WYSIWYG
and some users may feel that true WYSIWYG is not really necessary
for Greek text, as long as the system provides legible Greek characters,
which Nota Bene certainly does.

--David

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David J. Birnbaum         djb@wjh12.harvard.edu [Internet]
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