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From:         John Bigelow <ECON1286@MIZZOU1.MISSOURI.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Need for password protection (Was: Lost Password)
              27 Sep 1992 03:24:28 GMT from <rowright@BRONZE.UCS.INDIANA.EDU>

On Sun, 27 Sep 1992 03:24:28 GMT Ron Wright said:
>I am a therapist and I keep patient notes under encryption.
>I also keep my own personal journal encrypted: In order for me to feel free
>   writing there, I need to know it is for me only.

     If you have been reading this list, you should know that WP's
encryption does _not_ provide reliable protection against a moderately
determined snoop.  The program WPCRACK will enable a person who has access
to your encrypted files to determine the password and to read the files.
This program is pretty freely available on the internet.  On the other hand,
a casual user with access to your computer probably won't be able to
determine their content.  If your material is truly confidential, you might
consider additional precautions.  This needn't be high technology.  You
might simply purchase a simple box with a lock and keep confidential files
on floppy disks the the box.

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From: leffler@physics.ubc.ca (Steve Leffler )
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Subject: Re: Spell-checkers
Date: 2 Oct 92 22:08:11 GMT
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada

mike@childsoc.demon.co.uk (Michael Bernardi) writes:

>Following on from the from the subject of misspelling to VALID words that are
>not included. The one that springs to mind at once (in WP50 AND WP51) is that
>small and insignificant word "lost" which appears to have got lost :-)

>Are there many other words that should be in the WP Checker, and are not?

   All words containing apostrophes, such as "aren't", "can't", "won't", 
etc.  I have the UK lexicon, but I believe I had the US version when I had
5.0, and they weren't in there either.
  
			    ---Steven Leffler
			       leffler@physics.ubc.ca
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From: leffler@physics.ubc.ca (Steve Leffler )
Subject: Spell Checker improvements
Summary: Suggested improvement to WP spellchecker
Keywords: spell checker
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 22:15:00 GMT

   What I'd really like to see added to the WP spell checker is the ability
to permanently shut off flagging of "words" that contain both numbers and
letters.  Right now, it has to come up once before you are given the option
of discontinuing such checking.
   Canadian postal codes are a mixture of numbers and letters, so a lot of
what I write contains such mixed "words".  It's a pain having to tell WP
to ignore them each time I spellcheck.
				 ---Steven Leffler
				    leffler@physics.ubc.ca

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From:         Bob Cottis <MJPXREP@CMS.MCC.AC.UK>
Subject:      sorting in columns

I don't have a direct answer to the problem of sorting columnar text, but
I think a solution is to use a table (I find this is generally better than
parallel columns, though possibly the slow processing may be a problem on
slower PCs).  To lose the lines (if you dont want them) just block the
whole table (in table edit mode) and set all lines to none.  Then I believe
you can sort the table without any problems.

Bob Cottis, Corrosion and Protection Centre, UMIST
From: MCHOLL@TSRV1.TS.WM.EDU (Michael Hollinger)
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> We have had this problem at our office -- it's usually referred
> to as "the shift key is stuck again."  Usually we can resolve it
> by hitting the shift key a few times.  It also works off some
> tension caused by the sight oF aLL yOUR wORK lOOKING lIKE tHIS.
>
> --Barry Miller
>

Aah hah! So that's what the otjerwise uselss Uppercase/Lowercase
feature is for!

(I'll head off any questions. You block something and then hit Shift-
F3. This will capitalize text properly and such. I haven't really
bothered using it yet...)
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From:         "(Dr. Mary Ellen Murray)" <F_MURRAYME@CCSVAX.SFASU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Need for password protection (Was: Lost Password)

Could someone out there supply information regarding WordPerfect's
password protect feature?  Does such a thing exist?
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From: hiscrp@nuscc.nus.sg (C R Pennell)
Subject: Re:      Re: Spell check and foreign accents
Organization: National University of Singapore
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 23:38:34 GMT

        "(Claus Tondering)" <ct@DDE.DK> writes:
: 
: You don't have to choose Ukranian. Any two-letter combination will do.
: WordPerfect doesn't care. Chose XQ for example (this is the code for
: the Xqish language used on Mars :-)).

	I thought the language spoken on Mars was called UNIX

	But thank you all for your suggestions . . .

Richard Pennell, History NUS.
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From: jejensen@alfred.carleton.ca (John Jensen)
Subject: Driver for Panasonic PR-1111 incomplete?
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 04:22:06 GMT

I'm using WP 5.1 with an old but dependable Panasonic PR-1111 printer.

The printer has elite and pica fonts, which are included in the
printer definition file, but also a proportional font, which is NOT.

Does anyone know how I can get WP to use this proportional printing?

John Jensen
jejensen@ccs.carleton.ca
  
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From: enordmoe@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Eric Nordmoe)
Subject: Bold-Faced Greek Letters
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 16:02:44 GMT

I've been using the 1-19-90 release of WP 5.1 for DOS and have been having
trouble getting our HPIII Postscript printer to produced bold Greek
characters (using a downloaded driver file HPLAIIPO.PRS).  With the base
font set to, say, New Century Schoolbook 11 pt, Greek letters only print in
regular (un-bolded) font whether preceded by a BOLD code or not.  This also
holds true within the equation editor.  I'm wondering if there is something
I need to do to the substitute or automatic font changes.  I know there
must be a solution as I've finally succeeded in producing bold letters by
changing the base font to Times Roman Bold AND setting a BOLD code before
the letter.  While this approach works as a last resort, I'm sure there
must be a better solution.

First, has anyone else encountered this problem (is it a known bug?) and
second, is there a better solution than the awkward one I've stumbled upon?
Thanks in advance.

Eric Nordmoe
Northwestern University
Dept. of Statistics
enordmoe@nwu.edu

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From: hiscrp@nuscc.nus.sg (C R Pennell)
Subject: Spell check and foreign accents
Organization: National University of Singapore
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 01:50:21 GMT

	I use WP5.1 in teh Britsih version, but with add-on nodules for
Spanish and French. In order to write in Sp & Fr I have configured my
keyboard so that the ALT-k gives a accute ALT-b gives a grave etc.
	This works fine when I am typing, but it poses problems when
running spell-checks. If my french dict picks up an error in a word with
an accent, and I try to correct it using option 4 on the spell-checker,
it won't let me use the ALT macro to provide that letter. The program
simply  hangs. Has anyone any idea what to do about this?

A connected problem: some of my French/Spanish is from the early
nineteenth century when orthography was different: if I include a piece
of this in modern text as a quotation is there any way of making the
spell-check SKIP that para - something like the language code Fr for
French UK for British Eng Sp for Spanish which means TURN OFF and tehn
TURN  on at the end of the para

Richard Pennell History NUS 
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From: hiscrp@nuscc.nus.sg (C R Pennell)
Subject: Re:      Re: Spell check and foreign accents
Organization: National University of Singapore
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 07:38:00 GMT

        Michael Hollinger <MCHOLL@TSRV1.TS.WM.EDU> writes:
: 
: I can at least solve this one for you. Use a language code for a
: module that you do not have (Try Ukrainian, I don't even think the
: Ukrainians use it!!!) Then, when it gets to that language, amazingly
: enough it will say "I can't find it!!!" Then, it will give you the
: option of skipping the rest of that language..

 Er thanks. BTW what is the code for Ukranian module. Because UK as we
all know is something else . . . 

Richard
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From:         "A. Kaniss" <dashiell@NADC.NADC.NAVY.MIL>
Subject: Re: Transposed words that WP misses

It would need a context checker for this situation.  Gramatik may be
able to do that but am not sure.

Jude <dashiell@nadc.nadc.navy.mil>
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>I was wondering just how many such words exist. If the number is
>large, should a sophisticated Spell-checker flag such words for
>further scrutiny?
>
>I'd appreciate any comments anyone might have on this matter. Does
>anyone have any further examples?

Consider what the spell checker could do.  I assume that WordPerfect is not
going to go to great lengths for context and grammar checking.  It could stop
on all words that are anagrams of another and show all the possibilities.
This would slow spell checking down since it would be stopping on a lot more
words but then they could make it an initial setting selectable in Setup.
Those that need it would find it most useful.
From: deatz@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Gregory H Deatz)
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Subject: once again, printing to disk...
Date: 26 Sep 92 16:34:35 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


Now that you have been kind enough to tell me how I might print to
disk, here is another question:

When you print to file, WP merely prints to ONE file, meaning, if I
want to save the work I did regarding the printing of a file, I would
have to change the name of the "printed" file. Anyway, is there a
macro I can design that would see if such a file existed, and if it
did, it would then go into Printer Setup, and change the name of the
printer file?

I've got c++, c, assembler, and pascal at my disposal, so if you have
an answer it can (and should if it operates any better) utilize these
languages. Hope someone's got an answer to this one.
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From:         "A. Kaniss" <dashiell@NADC.NADC.NAVY.MIL>
Subject:      "spell check"

I was editing a document with wordperfect and afterward did
spell checking on the document.  What I would like to know is if there's
a word that wordperfect thinks is misspelled in a document that occurs
several times and in reality that word is not misspelled if there's a way
to be asked about that word only once and when wordperfect is told to ignore
it in the future that it would actually do this.
As it is now unless they've fixed the spellchecker in wp5.1 from
what it was in wp5.0 this program is about as useful as a screen door
in a submarine after the depth charge has hit.

jude <dashiell@nadc.nadc.navy.mil>
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From:         John S Robinson <JSR1@VAXB.YORK.AC.UK>
Subject:      RE: Upgrading WP 5.0 to 5.1 on VAX/VMS

Upgrading WP 5.0 to 5.1 on VAX/VMS

We upgraded from 5.0 to 5.1 on VAX/VMS last summer, and to 5.1-1 this spring.
We currently have VAX/VMS 5.5-1 - I cannot remember what the VMS version was at
the time we upgraded.

The first thing to say is that 5.1 is a much better product - I would hate to
lose the context-sensitive HELP, equation editor and tables most of all.

Mixing versions

The main problem we have is that we are still running 5.0 in tandem with 5.1.
Try to avoid this if you can.  We need to keep 5.0 alive because we do not yet
have French and German language support for 5.1.  The startup is more difficult
with both version running, and WP points the two logical names for the global
settings file for 5.0 and 5.1 (WPCORP_GLOBALSET and WPCORP_WP51_GLOBALSET) to
the SAME file- this leads to all sorts of trouble.  I have to
remember to change the startup files to establish different values for these
logical names, and for the LOCALSET versions.

Graphics crashes

We had a number of problems with 5.1 importing graphics, mostly with .EPS
files.  One problem caused a 'file prefix creation error', which rendered the
file unuseable; thank goodness for VMS version numbers.  Another problem caused
register dumps when files with graphics were printed - a workaround was to
use 'graphic on disk', or to edit a comment into the .EPS file (truly!).  Both
these problems have been fixed in 5.1-1.

Integrated printing

We do not use integrated printing, mainly because we have no printers on our
wordprocessing cluster !  Instead we run 'shadow' queues (using home-developed
software) which transfer files to our main VAX cluster for printing.  It was
not possible to do this with integrated queues.  But WP strongly recommend you
use integrated queues, and this also makes it easier to use background
printing (where another process does the print formatting, returning the user
process to the editing screen.

Printer drivers

If you have made changes to the printer drivers for 5.0, prepare for some
effort in moving these.  WP made a number of changes in printer drivers, in
areas like definition of 'leading'.  The automatic conversion program is not
very good, so I had to re-enter a lot of PostScript font details.

Language versions

We are still waiting for foreign langauge modules for 5.1.

Patch kits

We now have Patch kit (F) for wp 5.1-1.  Certainly some of the graphics
problems were not fixed until Patch Kit (E).

John S Robinson                              Tel:   0904-433833
University of York Computing Service         Fax:   0904-433740
Heslington, YORK.  YO1 5DD                   email: JSR1@UK.AC.YORK
From: deatz@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Gregory H Deatz)
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Subject: foreign dictonaries
Date: 5 Oct 92 03:02:16 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


Are WordPerfect dictionaries "shareware"? In other words, if I want to
get my hands on the German lexicon, where do I go and do I have to
pay?
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From: twilson@alfred.carleton.ca (Tom Wilson)
Subject: Re: Words missing from WP dictionary
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 16:18:32 GMT

I've found that it generally doesn't like, i.e. recognize apostrophized
words, like the two in this sentence, using 5.1

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From:         Johan Berteloot <JBERTELO@RKC.UFSIA.AC.BE>
Subject:      Re: Transposed words that WP misses

On Wed, 30 Sep 92 16:39:15 -0400 <MULLISH@NYUACF> said:
>The following is intended for those WP users who are as fascinated
>with the Spell-checker as I am. I am interested in those valid
>English words which have the following property.  When any two
>neighboring letters of the word are transposed, they yield another
>valid English word. The result of this is that the Spell-checker
>accepts the transposed words as correct for the simple reason that
>they also appear in the dictionary.
>
>Here are some examples of what I mean. I have indicated the
>transposed letters with capital letters:
>
>fROm UNclear thERe sLIver infRAction caUSal
>
>I was wondering just how many such words exist. If the number is
>large, should a sophisticated Spell-checker flag such words for
>further scrutiny?
>
>I'd appreciate any comments anyone might have on this matter. Does
>anyone have any further examples?
>
>Henry Mullish
>New York University

Hello Henry,

You made a quite sharp remark, because this is something that might happen
in probably all languages (at least it does also in my native language,
which is Dutch). I'm sure this checking would be a very good improvement
for dislectic (sp ?) people (and also for those amongst us who have
dislectic fingers while typewriting).

Could you forward your suggestion to the WP developers ? It's a tollfree
number in the US, but a very expensive operation from Belgium (about $5
per minute) and the Belgian office does not pass suggestions to Orem.

Thanks, Johan

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Subject: Re: Changing the appearance of equations
From: cctr132@csc.canterbury.ac.nz
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 06:54:51 GMT
Organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

In article <5152@daily-planet.concordia.ca>, georges@cs.concordia.ca
(CHUNG KAM CHUNG georges) writes:

> Is there a way to change the appearance of the equation.  I would simply
> like  to  see the equations printed non-bold.

Unless you have an [Eqn Opt] code where bolding is turned on, what you
are seeing is --NOT-- bold, but a "feature" of the system that generates
the equations as graphics within WP.  The extent of the apparent bolding
depends upon your printer driver, but generally teh support say "optimum
results" are obtained with a PS printer (which you seem to be using).

Try setting your base font to a bold version of your normal base font,
place an [Eqn Opt] code after the change (Alt-F9, 6, 4 from memory),
then create another equation after the options code -- now you will see
real bold equations.  Also, equations can look quite "uneven" due to
this "feature" if you don't have equations set to print as graphics.

Sorry - can't help with the other queries,

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From:         "Michael Q. Cleary" <CLEARY@ADMN1.LAW.UTAH.EDU>
Subject:      Printing Comments

     Is there a way to print the comments along with the text WITHOUT first
converting the comments to text (through Ctrl-F5)?

Thanks in advance,

Mike Cleary
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From: LEEUWEN@RULLF2.LEIDENUNIV.NL (Reinoud van Leeuwen)
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Date: 29 Sep 92 14:52:00 GMT
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Hi folks,

After a whole afternoon trying to find that little bug in my macro, I
asked myself: is there any debugging aid available (shareware? commercial?)
that makes it easier to find errors in macro's?

Reinoud van Leeuwen
Leiden University
The Netherlands

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From:         Dale Lally Carnegie Language Center St Lawrence University
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Subject:      Truncated WP version?

Recently there was a short note on the four files that one needs to
run WP from one floppy.  Could someone repeat that info?  Thanks in advance.


Cordially

Dale V Lally Jr, Director
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