RE: WordPerfect 12

  • From: "Chip Orange" <Corange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 09:37:03 -0500

Many of our professional administrative people are happier with WP,
you're not alone.  I wouldn't take the FS statement that WP 12 is
supported in jfw 6, however, as a statement that scripts will be
available.  It may be nothing more than the automatic use of the
registry key I've been supplying to folks to manually install for
themselves.

WP, in my opinion, has a basic paradigm that's easier for most people
(especially blind people) to understand.  It's the idea of a document as
a stream of commands mixed with text.  This means if you scan the WP
reveal codes you'll see "bold on" and you know that everything from that
point onward, perhaps to the end of the document, will be bolded until
you see a "bold off" code.  This is very simple to understand and
explain.

The Word paradigm is completely different, and hard to explain to anyone
who isn't a programmer.  It's all about object oriented ideas, with
inheritance and precedence, and the whole mess of concepts to try to
explain to your average user.  This means you have to explain that the
paragraph is the basic unit, and you can bold the entire paragraph by
setting the bolding paragraph attribute, but the next paragraph in the
document will not be bolded.  Everything in Word revolves around this
paragraph container, and there's almost no concept of a page for
instance.

In WP it's easy to set it up so that each page in a document has a
different header or footer.  This is because WP has the concept of pages
as part of its paradigm.  Word doesn't, so you literally cannot do this.
It's literally impossible to tell Word that you want a different header
for page 3, where-ever page 3 should happen to start, and then you want
to go back to some other header for page 4.  Yes, you can try to work
yourself to death by doing it with sections, but then you have to know
where the page breaks will happen, and this doesn't allow for editing of
the document later which may change the pagination.  This kind of
complexity is driving us crazy.

See what you did, you got me up on the soap box again, and I've been
here so much lately they're going to take it away from me if I don't get
down!!


Later,

Chip

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx=20
> [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Berry
> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 6:56 PM
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: WordPerfect 12
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> Hello there,
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> On a daily basis I use Word Perfect 12 for all my work=20
> documents.  I find that Word Perfect 12 is much more simpler=20
> for me than Microsoft could and would ever be.  The only=20
> problem but with Jaws Version 6.0 this will be fixed is that=20
> it didn't have scripts.  Now I didn't use WP 10 so I can't=20
> really answer the second part of your question but I myself=20
> am much happier with WP 12 as I have always been partial to it.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marijan Janev" <janevm@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 2:44 AM
> Subject: WordPerfect 12
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> > Hi Friends,
> > Does anybody have any experience with WordPerfect 12 using=20
> JFW5 or 5.1?
> > I want to install it but I'm wandering if it is worth to=20
> effort. With=20
> > Chip's help I use WP10 successfully but I'd like to try the=20
> latest one and=20
> > wish to know is there any significant improvement.
> > Any recommendation or opinion?
> > Thanks in advance!
> > Marijan
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