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Back in my day we used Corel WordPerfect at school.
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Kids today and their fancy Office 365.
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Look at you Mr. Fancy Pants using Windows.
Before Correl bought WordPerfect and made it usable!
WordPerfect was a nightmare to use, and I’m very glad that it’s dead.
I had Corel WordPerfect for Linux.
You could modify the SGML codes to create documents that were compatible with all other versions of WordPerfect and MS Word, but he features that were supported in the document format, but not in the software.
For instance, I could change use more than the 16 colours that the Word for Windows UI allowed you to use, even though the displayed correctly in the WYSIWYG editor and printed correctly.
Oh god, SGML. That's a memory I had successfully repressed.
I used to write my Computer Science assignments in DocBook (XML). It would amaze the assessor’s when they said they wanted a PDF or PostScript or HTML or whatever and I would spit out a document custom formatted for whichever platform they wanted.
Then they would ask for it in Word DOC and I would be screwed.
Hell yeah. I ran Corel Linux their last gasp at a pivot….
I was about to say. Wp5 on dos 5.0 with the blue screen.
I think this was the version right before WYSIWIG support was added. So you could still use fonts, and change font sizes but on screen it would show a strange notation but not the actual font. Complex layouts were tough 😅