hents allways keep a windows box fore such things. thanks hank ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shane Wegner" <shane-keyword-speakup.aca783@xxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 6:50 PM Subject: Re: Word Perfect: in memorium > On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 07:57:55PM -0500, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > > Lots of folks seem to be missing Word Perfect 5.1 pretty badly. I was > > going to say they seem to pine for it, but that would be too bad!!! > > --- snip --- > > One of the only remaining reasons I continue to have a > Windows box is word processing. You mention xml but afaik, > xml doesn't know anything about fonts, emphasis, or even > paragraphs. In order to get all that, you have to write in > a format like DocBook where you have to put everything > inside <para tags. That and pressing ctrl-b is a lot > easier than writing <emphasis>my text here</emphasis>. Oh > and not to forget <itemisedlist> for bullets etc. > > I'm no xml expert but doesn't changing fonts and sizes > involve writing stylesheets for the document in question. > Maybe tex simplifies all this, I have never looked at it > but imo, word processing still has its place and I haven't > come across a good console app yet. > > S > > -- > Shane Wegner > http://www.cm.nu/~shane/ > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
