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From: ted@imsvax.UUCP (Ted Holden)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Requests for info on the SSI WordPerfect package
Message-ID: <468@imsvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 19-Nov-85 19:51:15 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 19 19:51:15 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 23-Nov-85 02:58:04 EST
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               Info World  just ran a reviews of WordPerfect, and explained
          that they'd been forced to go from a four to  a five  star rating
          system  due  to  the  experience;   the new 4.1 version radically
          outclassed everything they'd ever seen.    My  own  work involves
          word processing  and the  Navy DIF  (Document Interchange Format)
          standard, as well as  various  other  projects  involving systems
          integration, and  I thought  I might as well get my own two cents
          worth in on this one.

               The niftiest feature  of  WordPerfect  is  an  invisible one
          which they  don't really advertise;  the fact that the program is
          coded in  PC assembler.   This  makes the  program hellishly fast
          compared to  ANY other word processor I've ever dealt with on any
          kind of hardware.   WordPerfect can  flash from  one end  of a 50
          page document  to the  other in seconds.  It further tightens the
          code up to such an extent that, of  the PC  word processors which
          you could  call high-class  or full-featured,  WordPerfect is the
          only one which will run elegantly  and well  on minimal  PCs i.e.
          256K and 2 floppies.

               WordPerfect  has  more  features  than  any  other  PC  word
          processor.  It has text, decimal, centered, and right-flush tabs,
          all retained  in file-structure  (many PC  word processors simply
          expand tabs  into white-space  on the  spot), automatic footnotes
          and  endnotes,   automatic  indexing   and  outlining,  on-screen
          serpentine columns, multiple headers  and footers, multi-document
          capabilities, and  generally every  feature I've ever seen on any
          word processing system whatsoever except  for  one;    It doesn't
          have  on-screen  (WYSWYG)  graphics or type-setting features like
          the Xerox 8010 or  6085, or  special font  capabilities for Greek
          alphabet or  math symbols, including multiple superscripting etc.
          like  the  Mark  Software  WordMarc  package.     However,  since
          WordPerfect  does  have  drivers  for HP and Canon laser printers
          with all font cartridges,  one  could  even  say  that  it  has a
          minimal type-setting capability.