Re: CHAT: WPs for conlangs [was: CHAT: Microsoft]

Padraic wrote:

> --- Barbara Barrett
> <barbarabarrett@...> wrote:
>
> > Anyway, anyone out there know of an equally
> > versitile WP that'd work with windoze?
>
> I've always liked Word Perfect. It ain't exactly
> inexpensive, but it is stable, versatile and easy
> to use. Easier and more intuitive than M$ Word,
> anyway!
Correct on all counts; I had WP8 on my first computer; it could do lots
"special characters", but no full IPA nor Unicode (I guess I could have
downloaded them, but didn't quite know how at the time). However, WP docs
were not always readable by other computers.  I now have Office XP or
something like it, plus Word 2000; these have Unicode, and hundreds more
fonts than I'll ever use--but I find them quirky, and their Help files are
impossible.  I had to reinstall WP8 so I could read my old files; very
strange, often disastrous, things happen when I try to open or copy them
into XP or Word.