[HANASHIR:15843] RE: Davka Writer

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Funny, Dagesh just offered me a 'competitive' price of $60 since I already own 
Davkawriter.  Is it worth having both around?  Seems that most of the Rabbi's 
I've worked with use Dagesh and I thought it would be good to have the program 
that they use.

I used the ta-amim from the fonts in Davkawriter in Finale to make trope 
notation sheets.  Upper accents above the staff and lower accents below.  Looks 
very cool.

Michael


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  From: mfsings (at) ccr(dot)net 
  To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org 
  Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 8:34 PM
  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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