Re: Greek (and WordPerfect) (was Interface font)

Michael Ward,

Are you telling us that Nota Bene does *not* do it
fully and correctly? Or have you just not tried that?

I have been trying to decide whether I need to shell
out the big bucks for NB -- not for the Greek, which I
don't need, but for the orientation toward serious,
long documents. But I certainly would hesitate if
they have screwed up the Greek. There is nothing more
important in a program than correctness, and a lack of
attention to that might well prove pervasive.

--- Lars Eighner <eighner@io.com> wrote:

>
> On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Andy Korvemaker wrote:
>
> >
> > On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 19:53:53 -0600, "Michael Ward"
> said:
> >> I second that. I still use WP 5.1 sometimes,
> because (to my knowledge)
> >> it is still the only word processor with a full
> and *correct* ancient
> >> Greek font, *including* accents and breathings.
> >
> > My Greek usage has been fairly limited,
>
> Mine too, but I was under the impression that
> ancient Greek didn't have
> accents at all and the accents and stuff didn't come
> around until church
> Greek.
>
> Anyway, after being up all night I finally got a
> template that sort of would
> work for short-story manusripts, but had to do a lot
> of editing of templates
> in a trusty flat-ASCII editor. Now I discover that
> "Save as Word" actually
> results in some kind of rtf document, which might as
> well be ancient Greek
> to Word. So, I'm kind of stymied.
>
> I'm wondering if anyone has ever thought of a "work
> just like a typewriter"
> mode. A book manuscript template would take at
> least three different kinds
> of headers, and I am just guess, but I bet
> pagination wouldn't really work
> properly in a book-length manuscript, so I'm
> thinking "Gee, I wish I still
> had a typewriter." I'm not sure I really mean that.
> But battling the
> formating is really tiresome. After all, the work
> should go into
> *production*, and you should have to spend several
> nights and day on
> *configuration*.
>
> Set the margins (which can be defeated with back
> tabs and space ups when
> necessary. Set the line spacing. And type.
> Wouldn't that be wonderful!
> If you need a header, space up into the top margin,
> back tab, and type it!
> Don't spend time trying to force it in some
> preconceive XML schema that was
> devised by someone who has never written "cat" even
> when spotted the c and
> the a.
>
> Imagine a world in which software did what people
> needed instead of trying
> to convince people to need what the software can do!
>
> "You may say I'm a dreamer
> But I'm not the only one."
> --John Lennon
>
> --
> Lars Eighner
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> http://www.larseighner.com/index.html
> 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266
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Received on Sat Jul 8 02:27:31 2006