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On 13 Dec 03 at 15:41, baslinux-request AT lists.ibibl wrote:

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>On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, Day Brown wrote:
>
>> First off, most of us compose text for this screen, not to be printed on
>> paper.
>
>Speak fer yerself.  I need a wsiwyg wordprocessor: I often have to write
>things for publication with advanced formatting (footnotes, centering, block
>indentation, varying fonts and languages), and something that can faithfully
>display what the printed page is going to look like saves me time and
>energy.
>
>James

I tested to run MS Word 6.0 for DOS under dosemu in an X Window. This
would probably meet your needs. MS Word 5.5 has been made available
by MS, after a Y2K bug appeared in MS Word 5.0.

Drawback: You will not be able to import or export formatted files
(RTF, HTML, DOC). On the other hand the old MS Word creates tiny
little files with a transparent structure, which can be even edited,
converted, manipulated with a text editor.

Christof

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