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> It's almost as if the C-64 were the favorite tool for writers, and Commodore still made it just because of that. Many lawyers in America still use WordPerfec
by hyperrail 4y ago
> It's almost as if the C-64 were the favorite tool for writers, and Commodore still made it just because of that.
Many lawyers in America still use WordPerfect, and I suspect Corel still makes and updates it for that reason :-)
I've heard from WordPerfect fans that it gives much more precise and reliable control over formatting than Microsoft Word, very important for picky court clerks and judges. WordPerfect also has a "reveal formatting codes" function, the equivalent of showing the HTML tags or Markdown syntax in line with the formatted result.
I haven't used WordPerfect in years, not since some WYSIWYG version for DOS (6?), so I don't have a personal opinion on whether it still deserves its popularity today.
- tablespoon 4y ago> Many lawyers in America still use WordPerfect, and I suspect Corel still makes and updates it for that reason :-) IIRC, that's because Word can't do footnotes (or something like that) the way lawyers need to do them, but WordPerfect can.
- such12 4y agoIt seems odd that Microsoft hasn’t added whatever this feature is.
- jamesliudotcc 4y agoNo, false. I was a lawyer once. Lawyers under ... 60 use Word. Courts up North get all kinds of horribly formatted dreck, but it could be worse. In the South, they get keyboard fonts but justified. In California, they get filings on paper with line numbers on the left that are strangely unaligned with the lines of text. The only court I know that is truly finicky about formatting is the US Supreme Court, but they have sensible rules, like requiring Century, and book-width lines for actual readability.
- rbanffy 4y ago> but they have sensible rules, Are those rules published somewhere?