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Hyper-WordPerfect attempts to display WordPerfect documents as
hypertext. It is only partially successful for a number of reasons:
- I could not find any text that provided a description of the internal
structure of WordPerfect document files. Hence, this program has been
designed through files dumps and trial-and-error.
- It has only been applied to a very limited number of test cases. It
could misformat, misinterpret, or just plain break, on the very next document
it is applied against.
- The current generation of hypertext browsers were designed to display
generic documents, and are not particularly adept at providing many
traditional text-processing capabilities, such as controlled indentation.
This means there is often no one-to-one correspondance between the ``place the
text 2.5 cm from the left margin'' of the word-processor and ``this is a new
paragraph'' of the HTML formatter.
Not-With-Standing these limitations it does perform reasonably well on
documents employing the less esoteric WordPerfect capabilities.