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
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.
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.
@bert_hubert Bestaat nog steeds, btw.
#wordperfect
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.
In my #blog
Where #WordPerfect continues to hold its own against Word and other upstarts
https://jackyan.com/blog/2026/02/where-wordperfect-continues-to-hold-its-own-against-word-and-other-upstarts/ #software #design
Above: This blog post, prepared on WordPerfect, with Reveal Codes showing the mark-up I was asked today why I find WordPerfect better than Word. Unlike most people, I never made the shift in the 1990s. There are the usual features that most reviewers note, such as Reveal Codes, which shows just why the text
@kuroneko Here you go, freshly written!
https://jackyan.com/blog/2026/02/where-wordperfect-continues-to-hold-its-own-against-word-and-other-upstarts/ #WordPerfect
Above: This blog post, prepared on WordPerfect, with Reveal Codes showing the mark-up I was asked today why I find WordPerfect better than Word. Unlike most people, I never made the shift in the 1990s. There are the usual features that most reviewers note, such as Reveal Codes, which shows just why the text
My #MSOffice installation threw one of those fits when you won’t let it connect to the mothership, so it will not function without fishing out the disks and reinstalling. It does this every year or three.
So far, I have had a few instances with either word or spreadsheet documents needing editing. While I love using #Corel #WordPerfect #QuattroPro suite, it doesn’t always handle things as well.
I remembered a stale copy of #LibreOffice was installed, so I tried that. It managed all I have needed of it so far, and I suspect I will not reconsider the Office reinstall unless I need to use PivotTables, and that isn’t very often lately.
Yes, the Office is an old version, and owned, not leased. I have more than had my money’s worth out of it, and no, there is no way I will be upgrading it. No, I don’t let it near the www.
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