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New post: The Markdown Link no. 12
Among today’s links are #markdowneditors Deepdwn and MarkLite, toolbar app Append, quick-capture app Kraa, and Mat Duggan plumbs the depths of the #filesystem
https://md-markdown.com/blog/markdown-link-no-12/
#markdown #Fountain #MSWord #WordStar #WordPerfect #Deepdwn #MarkLite #Append
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New post: The Markdown Link no. 12
Among today’s links are #markdowneditors Deepdwn and MarkLite, toolbar app Append, quick-capture app Kraa, and Mat Duggan plumbs the depths of the #filesystem
https://md-markdown.com/blog/markdown-link-no-12/
#markdown #Fountain #MSWord #WordStar #WordPerfect #Deepdwn #MarkLite #Append
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New post: The Markdown Link no. 12
Among today’s links are #markdowneditors Deepdwn and MarkLite, toolbar app Append, quick-capture app Kraa, and Mat Duggan plumbs the depths of the #filesystem
https://md-markdown.com/blog/markdown-link-no-12/
#markdown #Fountain #MSWord #WordStar #WordPerfect #Deepdwn #MarkLite #Append
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New post: The Markdown Link no. 12
Among today’s links are #markdowneditors Deepdwn and MarkLite, toolbar app Append, quick-capture app Kraa, and Mat Duggan plumbs the depths of the #filesystem
https://md-markdown.com/blog/markdown-link-no-12/
#markdown #Fountain #MSWord #WordStar #WordPerfect #Deepdwn #MarkLite #Append
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New post: The Markdown Link no. 12
Among today’s links are #markdowneditors Deepdwn and MarkLite, toolbar app Append, quick-capture app Kraa, and Mat Duggan plumbs the depths of the #filesystem
https://md-markdown.com/blog/markdown-link-no-12/
#markdown #Fountain #MSWord #WordStar #WordPerfect #Deepdwn #MarkLite #Append
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WordPerfect sits in the middle between LaTeX and Word when it comes to its document model.
It's a stream processor like LaTeX that just has a raw stream of text with tags applied to the text for formatting control.
It's a word processor like Word that shows you how that raw stream of text with tags looks on the document without having to recompile the document each time to see the results.
Anyone who wants to do a new FOSS document processor, please blatantly steal this model.
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RE: https://mastodon.world/@anttipeltola/116169203304658997
Looking back at the history of #WordPerfect—looks like I must have started using it in 1990, maybe even 1991, not 1989 as I had thought. I began with v. 5.1 (though I had played with v. 5) and given the timing, it must have crossed over in the 1990s. Before then it would have been Wordstar on the IBM PC-compatible and SuperScript on the Commodore 64.
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LibreOffice Writer is too quirky. I add in hard returns, it takes them out when I press enter after the paragraph. Same with tabs. Still no one touches #WordPerfect for usability.
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@bert_hubert Bestaat nog steeds, btw.
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If you're looking for a full version history of all WordPerfect releases between 1979 and 1997, here it is.
I'm personally using WordPerfect 6.2 for DOS and WordPerfect 3.5e for Macintosh as my main word processors.
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In my #blog
Where #WordPerfect continues to hold its own against Word and other upstartshttps://jackyan.com/blog/2026/02/where-wordperfect-continues-to-hold-its-own-against-word-and-other-upstarts/ #software #design
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Now that #Microsoft Office is facing another cycle of #Enshittification let us remember how they won in the first place in early 1990s from a person who still uses #WordPerfect for #DOS.
Word basically had very little market share and was deemed an inferior product to WordPerfect. Then marketing goons at Microsoft came up with a brilliant idea of bundling Word, Excel, and PowerPoint together and calling it Microsoft Office with retail price of 500 USD.
WordPerfect alone cost 500 USD back then.
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Again, happy that I use #WordPerfect … and that the only copy of Word I ever licensed was 97.
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Do you ever get a #retrocomputing intrusive thought?
This is #wordperfect 7 (ish, all from 1996 and 1997)
* Native #solaris #unix version (bottom left)
* Native 32bit windows in SunPCi (bottom right)
* #macintosh system 7 in MAE (top left)
* Windows 3.1 (16bit) in #wabi (top right)All of this was supported by at least one vendor at the time!
And you can actually copy/paste between all of them, and it just works!
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I have said, 'I stuck with #WordPerfect' so many times lately because of the increasing number of posts about how crap Word is. I should note that it has always been crap, but because WordPerfect cost money and Word was bundled, people chose Word. I get it. But now they charge you for Word, too, isnʼt it time to spend that money on something that works? (I know there is Libre, but on so many fronts it tries to ape Word, including terrible HTML outputs. But better than giving money to Microsoft.)
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Let's talk about WordPerfect vs. Word too. WordPerfect 6.0 released in 1993 allowed freely to place images in the document and would even flow the text around the image if you placed it in the middle of the document.
Word still is absolute dog shit when dealing with images in documents in 2025. WordPerfect was not killed off by monopolists but by greedy corporations who calculated that WordPerfect cost 400 USD while MS Office cost 400 USD and also had Excel and PowerPoint.
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For all WordPerfect for DOS users out there, I made a nice write-up on how you can continue using it with modern PDF-based workflows:
https://github.com/dosbox-staging/dosbox-staging/wiki/Applications#wordperfect-62-for-dos
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Word Perfect 6.0 for DOS Training VHS
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Corel WordPerfect Office Pro Nedir? Profesyoneller İçin Güçlü Ofis Yazılımı
#CorelWordPerfectOfficePro, #WordPerfect, #Corel, #ofisyazılımı, #QuattroPro, #Presentations, #PDFaraçları, #hukukyazılımı, #alternatifofisprogramı, #MicrosoftOfficealternatifi -
Corel WordPerfect Office Pro Nedir? Profesyoneller İçin Güçlü Ofis Yazılımı
#CorelWordPerfectOfficePro, #WordPerfect, #Corel, #ofisyazılımı, #QuattroPro, #Presentations, #PDFaraçları, #hukukyazılımı, #alternatifofisprogramı, #MicrosoftOfficealternatifi -
Installed #Corel #WordPerfect 7 on my #AlphaServer DS15A running #Tru64 #UNIX 5.1B.
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Installed #Corel #WordPerfect 7 on my #AlphaServer DS15A running #Tru64 #UNIX 5.1B.
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Installed #Corel #WordPerfect 7 on my #AlphaServer DS15A running #Tru64 #UNIX 5.1B.
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Installed #Corel #WordPerfect 7 on my #AlphaServer DS15A running #Tru64 #UNIX 5.1B.
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Installed #Corel #WordPerfect 7 on my #AlphaServer DS15A running #Tru64 #UNIX 5.1B.
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I've been using computers all my life, #Linux and #Unix since the 90s, and word processors since #Wordperfect 5.1 for #MS-DOS but I still can't grasp the #vim and #emacs keybindings. I know it's not necessary to learn all of them if all I'm doing is #writing novels but I still feel like I'm not a real Linux user if I can't do everything from the #commandline with input methods that predate the #ibmpc, the #modelmkeyboard, and even the #vt100 terminal.
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I know it is silly, but sometimes I yearn to go back to #Corel #WordPerfect. I've used #LibreOffice since it forked from #OpenOffice, but WordPerfect still to this day can be purchased once and just used. It's the way professional software should be sold. Not to corpo-simp or anything, but still. Software developers gotta make money and that seems like the ethical way to do it, generally.
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I know it is silly, but sometimes I yearn to go back to #Corel #WordPerfect. I've used #LibreOffice since it forked from #OpenOffice, but WordPerfect still to this day can be purchased once and just used. It's the way professional software should be sold. Not to corpo-simp or anything, but still. Software developers gotta make money and that seems like the ethical way to do it, generally.
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I know it is silly, but sometimes I yearn to go back to #Corel #WordPerfect. I've used #LibreOffice since it forked from #OpenOffice, but WordPerfect still to this day can be purchased once and just used. It's the way professional software should be sold. Not to corpo-simp or anything, but still. Software developers gotta make money and that seems like the ethical way to do it, generally.
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I know it is silly, but sometimes I yearn to go back to #Corel #WordPerfect. I've used #LibreOffice since it forked from #OpenOffice, but WordPerfect still to this day can be purchased once and just used. It's the way professional software should be sold. Not to corpo-simp or anything, but still. Software developers gotta make money and that seems like the ethical way to do it, generally.
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I know it is silly, but sometimes I yearn to go back to #Corel #WordPerfect. I've used #LibreOffice since it forked from #OpenOffice, but WordPerfect still to this day can be purchased once and just used. It's the way professional software should be sold. Not to corpo-simp or anything, but still. Software developers gotta make money and that seems like the ethical way to do it, generally.
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Great advice. This is why all my books were written on #WordPerfect.
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@ibenb @CiaraNi So it goes, in one way or another. l loved #WordPerfect, but they simply got beaten by the worse competitor. I really adored the search program #Copernic where you could edit the result list, save it, update it, no ads. Enter google, and they were erased. Now I'm reducing #Proton back to the non-paying version (not leaving completely), and pumping up my volume at #posteo. I have installed #Linux (Mint) for the very first time in my quite long life, #micromizing. Never surrender, or whatever!
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@ibenb @CiaraNi So it goes, in one way or another. l loved #WordPerfect, but they simply got beaten by the worse competitor. I really adored the search program #Copernic where you could edit the result list, save it, update it, no ads. Enter google, and they were erased. Now I'm reducing #Proton back to the non-paying version (not leaving completely), and pumping up my volume at #posteo. I have installed #Linux (Mint) for the very first time in my quite long life, #micromizing. Never surrender, or whatever!
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@ibenb @CiaraNi So it goes, in one way or another. l loved #WordPerfect, but they simply got beaten by the worse competitor. I really adored the search program #Copernic where you could edit the result list, save it, update it, no ads. Enter google, and they were erased. Now I'm reducing #Proton back to the non-paying version (not leaving completely), and pumping up my volume at #posteo. I have installed #Linux (Mint) for the very first time in my quite long life, #micromizing. Never surrender, or whatever!
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@ibenb @CiaraNi So it goes, in one way or another. l loved #WordPerfect, but they simply got beaten by the worse competitor. I really adored the search program #Copernic where you could edit the result list, save it, update it, no ads. Enter google, and they were erased. Now I'm reducing #Proton back to the non-paying version (not leaving completely), and pumping up my volume at #posteo. I have installed #Linux (Mint) for the very first time in my quite long life, #micromizing. Never surrender, or whatever!
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@ibenb @CiaraNi So it goes, in one way or another. l loved #WordPerfect, but they simply got beaten by the worse competitor. I really adored the search program #Copernic where you could edit the result list, save it, update it, no ads. Enter google, and they were erased. Now I'm reducing #Proton back to the non-paying version (not leaving completely), and pumping up my volume at #posteo. I have installed #Linux (Mint) for the very first time in my quite long life, #micromizing. Never surrender, or whatever!
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Though I did have a lot of fun flirting with a crush at this job via the DOS-based #WordPerfect suite’s intraoffice email. The #CP437 character set’s proto-emoji smilies at 0x1 and 0x2 were super helpful for making clear our double-entendres.
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Though I did have a lot of fun flirting with a crush at this job via the DOS-based #WordPerfect suite’s intraoffice email. The #CP437 character set’s proto-emoji smilies at 0x1 and 0x2 were super helpful for making clear our double-entendres.
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Though I did have a lot of fun flirting with a crush at this job via the DOS-based #WordPerfect suite’s intraoffice email. The #CP437 character set’s proto-emoji smilies at 0x1 and 0x2 were super helpful for making clear our double-entendres.
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Though I did have a lot of fun flirting with a crush at this job via the DOS-based #WordPerfect suite’s intraoffice email. The #CP437 character set’s proto-emoji smilies at 0x1 and 0x2 were super helpful for making clear our double-entendres.
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Though I did have a lot of fun flirting with a crush at this job via the DOS-based #WordPerfect suite’s intraoffice email. The #CP437 character set’s proto-emoji smilies at 0x1 and 0x2 were super helpful for making clear our double-entendres.
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I am in an internal meeting in #Microsoft with the #Word team, and someone said:
"Microsoft recently celebrated 50 years and Word celebrated 40 years. Hard to imagine Microsoft without Word "
I can. I can imagine a world with #wordperfect, and #OpenOffice and #LibreOffice and #StarOffice and so on ... it was a good world with open standards.
I was not brave enough to say it lol. Many people here.--
And don't take me wrong, I like #Microsoft, I work here, there are many things good and good people.
But there was also a dark past, and still sometimes dubious decisions and investment.
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#WordPerfect running on a #Windows #ARM based system? Why not?
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Ik bedoel; ik weet nog dat we op mijn werk overstapten van #WordPerfect #WP naar Microsoft Office. Wat een hel was dat en ik vloekte heel wat af. maar uiteindelijk wende ik ook aan de kleuterige #MS-interface.
Nu gebruik ik natuurlijk #LibreOffice
