[Papyrus-L] WP bug relevant to papyrus

[Paul A. Deck]

Two items:

In the process of preparing a manuscript, I generated an .LST file and 
tried to open it in Word Perfect (6.0a for Windows, but same problem with 
WP9).  The LST file had 114 references (the correct number), but WP would 
only read in 82 of them.  After about 5 minutes I realized that I used a 
combination of a left curly bracket { and one of the extended ascii 
characters (the one in the 4th column of the 7th row of the F10 display) as 
part of my article title (I needed a Greek "eta").  This particular 
combination of ascii characters apparently chokes the import converter in 
WP.  The extended character by itself was okay, but I changed it anyway, 
and now all 114 references will read in to WP.  So if you have LST files 
won't read properly into WP, check the offending entry for stray ascii 
characters.

If you use "hidden text" in WP, you have to be careful not to allow the 
<Hidden> code get between your two % symbols.  That will choke Papyrus.

You might be wondering why I use WP6.0a.  It's a great old version (vintage 
1994), fast as greased lightning on a Pentium III, but most importantly it 
doesn't ruin my graphics (EPS) files by converting them into some nonsense 
proprietary graphics format.


Paul A. Deck
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