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From: Duncan Kennedy on 25 Jun 2010 17:22
Bob Whoredrope <bobby(a)btel.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:50:35 +0100, D.M. Procida wrote:
>
> > Pages's hyphenation seems a bit over-eager.
> >
> > It's happy to hyphenate words it doesn't - or I'd expect it not to -
> > know anything about.
> >
> > For example, it will hyphenate "Arkestra", if permitted, as Ark-estra or
> > Arkes-tra. Nice guess, I suppose, but a hostage to fortune.
> >
>
> That's ridiculous. Everyone knows it's "orchestra". The stupid thing
> doesn't even do a spell check.

It's not spelling that worries me - it's typing. (I need a spellchecker
that can tell when I really meant "public" but invartiably miss the "l".
And I used to work for a public body.)

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From: Rowland McDonnell on 25 Jun 2010 19:14
Elliott Roper <nospam(a)yrl.co.uk> wrote:

[snip]

> Yikes! That /is/ brain-damaged. I now use Pages instead of Word, but
> I'd never use either when I need better than ransom note typography.

Nah, that's a job for TeX:

<http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=ransom>

Rowland.

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