[HANASHIR:3510] Re: DavkaWriter 2000?

[Andy Curry <acurry...>]

Steve et al,

I have been using DavkaWriter for about a year.  I got it to upgrade my
capabilities from Dagesh Lite.  To give answers to each of your questions:

>*      is it reliable?
>*      is Davka's technical support good?

I have found it reliable;  I have had two problems:
   a.  You can't type a regular shin without a dagesh, because the key
combination (ctrl-shin-WITH-a-dagesh) is also a ctrl-p, which is the hot
key for printing; you have to use the mouse to point and click from the
on-screen keyboard;
   b.  After I upgraded my PC, I had to reinstall DavkaWriter,
necessitating a call to Davka Tech Support for the serial number I had lost.

In each case, I found Davka tech support to be surly and/or arrogant.

>*      is it as easy as Davka says it is?
It's fairly easy.  I have a little trouble with a) tables, and b) precise
alignment on margins.  But, to be fair, I had the same trouble with Dagesh!

>*      does it do all the things Davka says it does?
>*      can it easily be imported into Microsoft Word documents?
As far as I know, yes.  I don't do everything with it that it claims to do,
including importing into Word.

>*      is it impressive, and would you recommend it?
I recommend it, mainly because it's a good deal for $150.  I got - for no
extra charge - the complete siddur and the complete TaNaCh - both in Hebrew
- and having THOSE has has saved me a LOT of key strokes!

Shavua Tov,
Andy

Hi all,
>
>I'm contemplating buying DavkaWriter 2000 from Davka Judaic Software to
>easily create documents or parts of documents in Hebrew.
>
>Before I order it, I'd like to hear from anyone who's used it:
>
>*      is it reliable?
>*      is Davka's technical support good?
>*      is it as easy as Davka says it is?
>*      does it do all the things Davka says it does?
>*      can it easily be imported into Microsoft Word documents?
>*      is it impressive, and would you recommend it?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Steve Greenberg
>Minneapolis

Andy Curry
6016 Holmes St
Kansas City MO 64110-3034
(816)363-8381

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