Note
WordPerfect X8 (released April 2016) now includes some new template projects: APA Report, MLA Report, and Turabian Report.
- APA Style - Purdue University Online Writing Lab (Research and Citation Resources) for the APA Style, MLA Style, and Chicago Manual of Style.
APA Style Essentials (downloadable PDF document) -
Douglas Degelman, PhD; Vanguard University of Southern California.
Book Designer - https://www.thebookdesigner.com/
category/book-construction-blueprint/ -
"Book Construction Blueprint series"
- Book Designer - http://www.thebookdesigner.com/2009/09/parts-of-a-book/" -
- "Self-Publishing Basics: An Unabridged List of the Parts of a Book"
- BookWire
Homepage - https://www.bookwire.com/
- Butterick's Practical Typography
- https://practicaltypography.com/ - "Typography is the visual
component of the written word". Web-based book (voluntary payment) by the author of Typography for Lawyers.
- Chicago Manual of Style - https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html
- Documenting Sources in the Disciplines - https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/
- Copyright Law in the United States (BitLaw) - https://www.bitlaw.com/copyright/
- Critters Workshop for SF, Fantasy,
Horror writers
- http://brain-of-pooh.tech-soft.com/users/critters/
- Daily Writing Tips -
- https://www.dailywritingtips.com/
- A blog covering "... topics ranging from grammar to punctuation, from
spelling to usage and vocabulary." A good place to start is the section
on Most Popular Articles.
- ForWriters.com - http://forwriters.com/
Gentium font
-
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=gentium
- A good substitute for Times Roman, it is "a [free, open source]
typeface family designed to enable the diverse ethnic groups around the
world who use the Latin, Cyrillic and Greek scripts to produce
readable, high-quality publications. It supports a wide range of Latin-
and Cyrillic-based alphabets." Try the Gentium Basic and the slightly
heavier weighted Gentium Book Basic. [See also "What the Font?" in the Miscellaneous section below.]
- How to Set Rates FAQ - The HTML
Writers Guild
- http://www.hwg.org/resources/faqs/ratesFAQ.html
- International
Trademark Association
- https://www.inta.org/
- iUniverse - http://www.iuniverse.com/
- For new and out of print authors - A partnership with Barnes
& Noble, Writers Digest - Get published on the web!
- MLA Formatting and Style Guide - https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/
- Proper manuscript format by William Shunn - https://www.shunn.net/format.html
- Rhymer -
https://www.writeexpress.com/rhyming-dictionary.html
- (Commercial product) Rumored to be the same program that shipped with some early
DOS (WPCorp) versions of WordPerfect
- Richard
Lederer's Verbivore
- http://www.verbivore.com/ - "If you are heels over head
(as well as head over heels) in love with words, tarry here a
while to graze or, perhaps, feast on the English language. ..."
- Science
Fiction Resource Guide
- http://sf.emse.fr/SFRG/
- Science
Fiction Writers of America
- https://www.sfwa.org/
- The
Authors Guild Online
- https://www.authorsguild.org/
- The Online Communicator - http://www.online-communicator.com/toppage.html
- The Writer's Online Toolkit -
https://online.maryville.edu/blog/the-writers-online-toolkit/
- U.S. Government Printing Office Style
Manual -
- (or search the main site: https://www.gpo.gov) - "... The Style Manual is the product of many years of
public printing experience, and its rules are based on principles
of good usage and custom in the printing trade. The Style Manual
has served Federal printers since 1894, and with this 29th edition,
the traditions of printing and graphic arts are carried forward
into new technologies."
- Writer Beware
- https://www.sfwa.org/beware/ - Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers
of America - Warnings About Literary Fraud and Other Schemes,
Scams, and Pitfalls That Target Writers
- William Shunn - http://www.shunn.net/format/wp.html
- William Shunn's WordPerfect template and macros for automating
short story manuscripts.
- Writer's
Blocks software for writers
- https://www.writersblocks.com/
- Writer's
Digest - https://www.writersdigest.com/
- Writers
Guild of America
- https://www.wga.org/
- Writers.Net
Internet Resource for Writers, Editors, Publishers and Agents - https://www.writers.net/
- Writers
Write - A "one-stop
resource for information about books, writing and publishing."
http://www.writerswrite.com/
- Writing.com - https://www.writing.com/
Writing Center,
The - https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/ - Tips and Tools
page, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. See (e.g.) "Latin Terms and Abbreviations".
- Zotero - https://www.zotero.org/ - [Free, open source utility software] "Your personal research
assistant - Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect,
organize, cite, and share research." Documentation is online. [Related page to "create a quick bibliography": https://zbib.org/] - See also this post on WordPerfect Universe about using Zotero with WordPerfect.
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Some
Favorites
Click here for other shareware/freeware download
sites
- As-U-Type
- If you are not a touch-typist
(or even if you are), this little utility program can correct
typos and spelling errors as you type. It even works alongside
WordPerfect's QuickCorrect, and can expand abbreviations like
QuickWords -- in any Windows program (such as your e-mail
program). Learns from your mistakes. Easy to toggle on and off
as needed (LShft+RShft keys), and very easy to use. Free 30-day
trial.
- FinePrint
- "...save money
by reducing ink and paper usage
- reduce file storage
space
- skip graphics
- convert colored text
to black
- print multiple pages
onto a sheet
- print booklets (easier than
with WordPerfect)
- electronic letterhead
- watermarks, headers,
footers
- save as JPEG, TIF,
BMP..."
- This is a similar product
to ClickBook (below), for $49.95. Fewer layoout options than
ClickBook, but slightly easier to use, and it can store pages
until you are ready to print, making it even easier to create
booklets from multiple sources.
- Download the trial
(demo) version, which is limited to 8 pages of output and
has a default text footer; both limitations are removed when
you register.
- ClickBook
- Similar to FinePrint
but with more layout options. According to their web site, ClickBook
is "...a powerful yet easy-to-use printing utility, lets
you print customized day planner pages, wallet booklets, brochures,
greeting cards, catalogs, microfiche, and more from Internet,
Windows, or CD-Rom files! ClickBook, helps you scale, rotate,
and duplex your digital photos, favorite on-line content, or
other critical information into 40+ mobile and convenient layouts.
You can even design your own custom layouts and save up to 70%
in paper costs!" Also, ClickBook makes it easier to adjust
binding margins than WP's booklet printing feature.
- ClickBook works in
any Windows program since it acts as a printer driver, which
is selectable with File>Print.
- A ClickBook demo is
available for download (about 3Mb). The registration cost is
$49.95.
- NoteTab
Lite
"The ultimate free (Windows) Notepad replacement
and a handy HTML editor...Search files, strip HTML tags and format
text quickly."
- Of special interest
is NoteTab's ability to automatically store any text copied to
the Windows clipboard in its own "Pasteboard". Open
NoteTab, press <Shift+Ctrl+P>, and everything you copy
(Ctrl+C) or cut (Ctrl+X) will also go to the Pasteboard file.
(You can even minimize NoteTab for the session.) You can then
copy from the Pasteboard back into another application such as
WordPerfect, your e-mail program, etc.
- Cleaning up "quoted"
e-mail material is easy, too. Copy it into NoteTab, select the
text, then click Modify, E-mail, Unquote to remove all leading
">" symbols. Then select the text again and click
Modify, Lines, Join Lines. (These steps can be made easier by
customizing NoteTab's toolbar and adding the appropriate buttons.)
- Automatic
backups.
- If you need real-time,
automatic, sequential backups of designated files (as
many backups as you want), you might consider Centered
Systems SecondCopy ($29.95).
Some Other Download Sites
- Funduc
Software - Search and Replace for Wind. - http://www.funduc.com/
- SoftwareVault - https://www.softwarevault.com/
- TUCOWS - http://tucows.com/
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ASCII
/ HTML codes chart
Conversion factors (kilometers to miles, etc.)
- https://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001729.html
WhatTheFont? - "Ever wanted to find a font just
like the one used by certain publications, corporations, or ad
campaigns? Well now you can, using our WhatTheFont font recognition
system. Upload a scanned image of the font and instantly find
the closest matches in our database...." [See also the Find Fonts tab
on their site.]
Understanding the Nuances of Typeface Classification - A short (blog) article of various font typefaces - styles, history, examples (infographic), and links for further reading.
"What
is 'Lorem Ipsum?'"
- Dummy text for printing, layouts, etc., and a free generator of
random 'Latin' paragraphs. [WordPerfect has a macro, Lorem Ipsum, that
has been included since version X7 that can generate a specified number
of such meaningless words. And some browsers such as Firefox offer
"ipsum" add-ons for use in their browser.]
"Almost Perfect" - [A history of WordPerfect] The link at left is to a WordPerfect Universe post that provides links to the eBook, Almost Perfect, by W.E. Pete Peterson.
The fascinating inside story of WordPerfect Corporation's rise from rags to riches, straight from the man who ran the company.
In
1980 Pete Peterson was hired as the $5-an-hour part-time office manager
by a fledgling software company. That company became WordPerfect
Corporation, and Peterson quickly became Executive Vice President.
"Almost Perfect" is Peterson's first-person account of how a group of
business neophytes built a half-billion-dollar software company from the
ground up.
Other formats (epub, pdf, et al) can be bought on Smashwords here.
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How WordPerfect got its name
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From Chapter 3 of Peterson's book -
... One big
problem we had getting ready for the PC release [in November of 1982]
was finding a new name for the product. SSI*WP was not very catchy. I
liked the name WordPerfect, but I could not get anyone to support me. I
thought of the name while pulling into a parking space in front of our
offices, when I had one of those "Ah Ha!" type experiences. I liked the
name, because it reminded me of the idiom "letter perfect" and
described something which was word for word correct. I rushed into the
office, sure that everyone would go crazy and love the name, but no one
did.
Months
passed and we still could not agree on a name, so we decided to hold a
contest among the employees to name the product. Whoever came up with
the winning name would win $100. From a long list of nominated names,
we all voted for our favorite. Word Plus and ProWrite received the most
votes, and WordPerfect came in somewhere near the bottom. In spite of a
very poor showing, I put WordPerfect on the list of names we gave to
the attorney for a trademark search, just in case we could not use one
of the winning names. It turned out there was already a word processor
with the name Word Plus, and there was a printer with the name
Prowriter. Because we had taken so long to decide on a name, we had too
little time to start over. Under these circumstances, WordPerfect
became the unpopular winner. The name was so unpopular, in fact, that
no one paid me the $100 prize money.
Despite its
initial unpopularity, the name proved to be a good one. It was so
positive sounding that it made any criticism sound untrue. It was like
naming a soap, "Makes You Look Younger," so the competition would have
to say something like "Use our soap instead of the Makes You Look
Younger soap." "WordPerfect" also sounded like a very good product. ...
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A favorite
quote about
a time I remember well |
"...Soon
there will be no one who remembers when spaceflight was still a dream,
the reverie of reclusive boys and the vision of a handful of men. Most
of those who met in ardent little groups in small cafes between the
world wars, planning voyages to the moon and planets that they never
hoped to witness, are no longer living. And the last lonely boy to lie
in a cricket-pulsing, honeysuckle night and gaze at a virgin moon is
now in the latter years of his life. On the yellowed pages of boyhood
books, the silver ships still poise sleek and needle-nosed on the
craggy wastes of other worlds — on alien moonscapes, bathed in the
stark and eerie light of some monster planet whose ring-shadowed
hemisphere fills the whole horizon, bulging into the black sky like a
great golden bubble, looming behind spacesuited specks who wander
ant-like across the incandescent night.... It was a dream of visible
planets impossibly distant, of fantastic alien surfaces, of a Tom
Sawyer's island or an Emerald City of Oz, awaiting for eons the
beaching of man's boats. It was a vision of steaming Venusian jungles,
and fine soft days on the green hills of Mars, cooled by coastal
breezes from the Great Canal, looking over a far desert where ruins
stood half in sand...."
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