Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!cernvax!chx400!forty2!eichi From: eichi@forty2.UUCP (Stefan Eichenberger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: WordPerfect 5.1: Questions Keywords: WordPerfect, features, tables Message-ID: <1128@forty2.UUCP> Date: 14 Dec 89 11:21:39 GMT References: Reply-To: eichi@forty2.UUCP (Stefan Eichenberger) Organization: Exp. Physics University Zuerich Lines: 20 In article ajfried@ramones.rutgers.edu (A.j. Fried) writes: > > > Also, I understand that, unlike V. 5.0 which would only print special >characters supported by your printer, V5.1 will treat all special characters >as graphics thus allowing them to be printed on any printer. Is this true? > To add a question: What are all these WP characters? (I'm not yet a user of WP!) I heared, WP 5.1 includes sort of a formula editor. Does this support other than those characters included in IBMs extended ASCII set? Is it suitable for technical / mathematical texts? Is it an approach to what Lotus Manuscript (or LaTeX for that matter) tries to do in a less WYSIWYG way? -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- UUCP: ...mcvax!cernvax!forty2!eichi Stefan Eichenberger BITNET: K807817@CZHRZU1A University of Zurich ----------------------------------------------------------------------------