# Help

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.