On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Susan Cragin <susancra...@earthlink.net>wrote:
> There are two specialized but excellent word processors that have a very > specific following. Both have relatively small user bases. > > Word Perfect is still the application of choice for many law offices. If > you do legal transcription, you often have to certify that you have a valid > WP license and the latest program. Some statistics (wikipedia) show WP with > 15% of the business market. > My comment about WordPerfect was of course a joke. If I could use anything for documents, I'd use emacs + LaTeX and LaTeX worry about references, layout, font choice, etc. I've used WP and it translates well to other formats. >From what I understand, WP does word count correctly and that's required for legal document. Word doesn't. Does OpenOffice? > Lawyers are quite often behind the techno curve. (I have a law degree BTW.) > The free WP for Linux has been removed from most sites. It used wine, and > ran slowly. Corel's Linux is now Xandros. > > -- If it's fixed, don't break it
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