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Tangential: anyone remember WordPerfect on DOS, and how you could switch between WYSIWYG mode and "markup" mode, where you could delete style markers? The more
by AceJohnny2 3y ago
Tangential: anyone remember WordPerfect on DOS, and how you could switch between WYSIWYG mode and "markup" mode, where you could delete style markers?
The more things change...
- codelobe 3y agoIndeed. When I ask (now retiring) office workers they typically agree that WordPerfect 5.1 is the best document editor our Earth has to offer.
- wduquette 3y agoIt was pretty good...but I don't miss having to manually manage printer drivers for it.
- ivanbozic 3y agoInterestingly, George R. R. Martin still uses WordStar 4.0 [1] to write all of his books. It even predates WordPerfect 5.1 by three years (1986 and 1989). [1] https://techcrunch.com/2014/05/14/george-r-r-martin-writes-everything-in-wordstar-4-0-on-a-dos-machine/ https://techcrunch.com/2014/05/14/george-r-r-martin-writes-e...