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Continue to be impressed: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3524990/Gov-Uscourts-Cand-308136-64-0.pdf https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/352499

• toomanybeersies 10y ago
  Interesting to note from the pdf titles that they use Wordperfect. I didn't even know it still existed.
  • mikekchar 10y ago
    Word Perfect is used for many court cases because it is the only WYSIWYG word processor that paginates footnotes according to the US legal rules. In fact, it had a lock on the DoJ market for ages (and maybe still does) based solely on that. Word could never accommodate it because it breaks backwards compatibility (and whatever you say about MS's shady past, this is something that they stuck to even though it cost them a fair amount). I worked on WP when Corel first acquired it...
• visarga 10y ago
  > The judge is interested in learning the basic technology and learning publicly known art. This would be a good opportunity for a young lawyer to present in court. How thoughtful to promote young lawyers like that! Nice judge.