Hello Thomas Fernandez,
On Mon, 17 Apr 2000 11:21:47 +0800 GMT your local time,
which was Monday, April 17, 2000, 10:21:47 AM (GMT+0700) my local time,
Thomas Fernandez wrote:
> Hi Sir,
> On Sun, 16 Apr 2000 22:59:17 +0200GMT (17/04/2000, 04:59 +0800GMT),
> Sir Jinx! wrote:
SJ>> I would like to ask you for an advice. My mom is a
SJ>> translator for/to English language. So, for her work she
SJ>> *needs" an text editor that has feature that Word has,
SJ>> like bold, underline and italic letters, graphics, etc.
SJ>> since 99% of her work are documents. But we both *hate*
SJ>> how Word [doesn't] handle formatting. If you used it for
SJ>> some time, for some serious work, you know what I mean,
SJ>> and you were at least million times on the edge of a
SJ>> nervous breakdown, trying avoid those "suggestions" and
SJ>> "corrections"!:)))
> I do a lot of translations too, and M$-Word's the thing I use. You
> have all the features requested above, including c&p of graphs from a
> variaety of program - that includes Flow Charts, ERD's and other
> graphics from Yourdon (that's a CASE tool) - and spread sheets from
> Excel into Word docs, which can still be manipulated in Words without
> having tyo go back to Excel; graphics directly within Word; etc). You
> can switch the "suggestions" and "corrections" off - if you don't do
> that, they are seriously annoying, I absolutely agree. If your mother
> hasn't found out yet how to turn them off, maybe she should get a bit
> more familiar with the power of Word. It's in the context-sensitive
> help.
> On this list, I have often made clear that I am not a big fan of
> B.G.'s, but we have to be fair.
> As you have seen, the replies you have gotten on this list are rather
> technical (Tex is an excellent editor for mathematical problems, but
> unless that's what your mother translates, not really suitable for her
> tasks; I also think she wouldn't care too much about RAM usage if
> that's the only program he has running at any one time. You cannot do
> translations while browsing the web or checking your email on the
> side!). May I suggest you check with one of the many newsgroups
> concerning translations. Who knows, there may even be word processors
> especially for translators! ;-)
I think there aree including the oddest fonts you can think off.
On the other hand what about Lotus?
I use text editors so I am not an expert on this stuff but editors are
cery much taste dependent. Maybe an older version of workd???
Like word-2??? Some poeple loved it and its likely or better sure to
be on the web somewhere...
Best regards,
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