Word Perfect

[Jouko Lindstedt]

> > I don't know if they would still be able to sell the Module for WP 5.1 becau
   se
> > they've moved on now to 6.0 and 6.1.  I have the Module for 5.1 and 6.0 and
> > 6.1 is due out soon.  If you're thinking of upgrading from 5.1, definitely
> > *wait* until 6.1 is out.  The 6.0 version has some bugs in it that are kind
   of
> > annoying, but I have been assured that they are fixed in the 6.1 version, no
   t
> > that it does me any good.
>
> I do not think we should believe WordPerfect's promisses.  Unfortunately,
> after being bought by Nowell, they no longer provide friendly support to

I've been using WP 6.1 for Windows for two months now, so it must have
been out for quite some time in the U.S. I haven't noticed any serious
bugs, but I have no experience with large files yet. In some respects
Word 6.0 for Windows is user-friendlier than WP, but WP has some
advantages for a linguist: it keeps character set information and font
information separate, so that changing a font does not mean losing
character information even if the coding of the new font is different, or
does not contain the corresponding character at all. (And WP6.1 comes
with IPA and Cyrillic and what not -- not very nice-looking, but they can
be used before you install something better.)

Jouko Lindstedt
Department of Slavonic Languages, University of Helsinki
e-mail: Jouko.Lindstedt at Helsinki.Fi or jslindst at cc.helsinki.fi
http://www.helsinki.fi/~jslindst/