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From: rmeyer@XAIT.Xerox.COM (Richard Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Wordperfect / far from 10 worst list
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Date: 13 Jan 89 15:14:18 GMT
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One contributor noted: "Wordperfect lets you choose color to display
the various fonts -- just look at display/fonts/attributes" --

You will note that this does not work for font changes -- for example,
if you switch from 12 to 10-pitch font (rather than using "large").  In
addition, if your printer definition maps font changes, the same thing happens
(e.g., you may loose the underline indication).  In complex situations, where
one uses styles all the times to switch among a number of fonts, there is
indeed no easy way to detect and verify the correct style use on the screen
while typing. One would need to use "displaying codes", or "preview".

Nevertheless, looking at comparably priced products, running on the same
kind of hardware, WP 5.0 is a good deal.