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> WordPerfect. (Heck, WordPerfect even made lawyers have an opinion of their own) IIRC, WordPerfect is only still a thing because Word still does not do footno
by tablespoon 6y ago
> WordPerfect. (Heck, WordPerfect even made lawyers have an opinion of their own)
IIRC, WordPerfect is only still a thing because Word still does not do footnotes the way lawyers like (and courts require).
- agumonkey 6y agoOh, french court room I helped last summer does indeed use WordPerfect 12 .. it might very well be due to this sort of arguments.
- paultopia 6y agoIt's much more than footnotes. Courts have a lot of very picky formatting requirements, plus lawyers care a lot about presentation. Reveal codes is the thing about WordPerfect that lawyers love the most, because it gives you fine grained control over that stuff on a character/word level without having to pray to the Word Styles god.
- goatinaboat 6y agoCourts have a lot of very picky formatting requirements, plus lawyers care a lot about presentation Someone said once, a legal contract is a program that you run on a judge. So the formatting is as important as it is in a whitespace-sensitive language like Python.
- lostgame 6y agoAlso, at least here in Canada, it has a huge place in the education market, I believe in part due to a deal with the school systems.
- award_ 6y agoI work in legal software for courts and attorneys and can confirm WordPerfect is very much used by filing attorneys. Within the courts though, everything is typically PDF once filed.