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From: Charles Crawford <ccrawford@acb.org>
To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: text editing with speakup
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 06:00:02 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0306190559170.1427-100000@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0306172039360.978-100000@Champion.novocon.net>

Seems to me the problem is that the Linux text editors all use silly 
commands while WordPerfect has a well thought out and easy system of 
navigation and commands.

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:

> Seems to me that Word Perfect for Linux, if it existed, would
> have the same problem that all proprietary software has: i.e., it
> uses a proprietary format that assumes the availability of Word
> Perfect for anyone wishing to work with the document. I know you
> can make plain text files with WP, but why bother to use WP if
> you want to make plain text files? What are the advantages of
> Word Perfect for Linux that would be worth the limitations of a
> proprietary file format?
> 
> Or am I missing something?
> 
> 
> On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, jude dashiell wrote:
> 
> > Only version of that I've ever run into came on infomagic disks and would
> > need gnome or kde or some other form of x to run it.  It's for that reason
> > I'd not use wp under Linux or even have it take up disk space here.
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
> 
> 

-- 
-- Charlie Crawford




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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Joseph C. Lininger
 ` Alex Snow
 ` Thomas Stivers
   ` Charles Crawford
     ` Alex Snow
       ` jude dashiell
         ` Chuck Hallenbeck
           ` White, Matt
             ` Charles Crawford
               ` Janina Sajka
               ` jude dashiell
           ` Charles Crawford [this message]
             ` Chuck Hallenbeck
               ` White, Matt
     [not found]             ` <Pine.LNX.4.44.0306190611290.678-100000@Champion.novocon.ne t>
               ` Charles Crawford
             ` Luke Davis
             ` Janina Sajka
   ` jude dashiell
 ` White, Matt
   ` Steve Holmes
     ` Alex Snow

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