[HANASHIR:15831] RE: Davka Writer

[DEBORAH GINSBURG <andmg...>]

Thank you all for responding and helping me sort this out. I had 
wondered about the latest upgrades to Dagesh - they look pretty 
impressive on the website. I especially appreciate the educational 
discount info, which hadn't even occured to me to ask about.

Life's so much easier when we don't have to discover everything the had 
way!

B'shalom

Deb Ginsburg
Congregation Beth Sholom
Anchorage, AK
andmg (at) uaa(dot)alaska(dot)edu

----- Original Message -----
From: Marsha Fensin <mfsings (at) ccr(dot)net>
Date: Thursday, November 6, 2003 8:34 am
Subject: [HANASHIR:15830] RE: Davka Writer

>    Davka Writer also has a rabbinic/educational discount which 
> you 
> might want to ask them for.  That brings the cost down to about 
> $100. 
> It also interfaces with Microsoft Word very well. Daagesh does 
> not.  If 
> you want to add the graphic capability of Word, just copy and 
> paste into 
> Word once your document is complete.  ( You cannot edit the Hebrew 
> in 
> Word)  Then you can put in all those nice graphic features that 
> Word offers.
>    I used to use Dagesh ( and still do for certain things) but 
> switched 
> over to Davka Writer when Dagesh's latest upgrade, Dagesh Pro 
> became 
> very expensive at $89 ( even for an upgrade) and came with so many 
> glitches which required more patches than I cared to deal with.  I 
> sent 
> it back.  All my Dagesh files copy into Davka format very nicely 
> with a 
> little reformatting.
>    Davka Writes continues to improve, with regular upgrades, and 
> is 
> becoming more and more useful as I use it.  I love the Tanach and 
> Siddur 
> features, where you can just copy sections from Torah, and make 
> personalized portions for students.  Then, you can remove the 
> Nikud and 
> Tropes and put it into a Stam font and you don't have to copy and 
> paste 
> from a Tikkun.  Saves a lot of "patchkeing."
>    One more thing, Davka corporation is much more technological 
> and 
> service friendly. The program is written in Chicago as opposed to 
> Israel.    And, no, I don't work for them.
> Marsha
> 
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