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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 14:06:05 IST
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- Subject: Re: Multi-lingual scholar
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- Bob Strauss asked about Multi-Lingual Scholar (MLS). I'll share this with the
- list since others may be interested.
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- I used MLS 3.2 (not the latest version) before discovering NB. I have seen
- demos of MLS 4.0 and in short I don't think they improved on the faults of 3.2.
- That is to say MLS is wonderful from the standpoint that it already does
- Arabic as well as many other alphabets that NB doesn't handle, and its printer
- fonts are beautiful, even on a 24 pin printer. However, as a wordprocessor
- it does not make the grade. Assuming the latest version is anything like the
- previous version it has no style sheets, no spell-checker, and is very
- difficult (add an it after "and" on last line) to do page formatting and
- footnotes which is all accomplished by directly entering commands into your
- document with strange and elongated syntax to control features. Despite the
- paucity of commands as compared to NB I never could master even the basic ones.
- Unless you're desperate for Arabic, or other characters that NB doesn't provide
- I do not recommend it. I also had lots of problems mixing languages. An
- inserted word in a different alphabet would often unexplicably jump out of
- place and needed to be reentered. Of course you also don't get IBID or Orbis
- which we hope will work more easily one day, and the file format is incompatible
- with anything in the universe.
-
- The bottom line: I was glad to find NB, quirks and all, it beats MLS and
- WP (which I also used for many years) for my purposes.
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- Yechiel Goldberg
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