Lexicon (program)

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Lexicon was a text editor / word processor MS-DOS program that was extremely popular in the Soviet Union and Russia at the end of 1980s and in 1990s.[1] Some estimate that Lexicon was illegally installed on 95% of all Russian PCs. The last version for MS-DOS was 1.4. Later Windows versions were developed, but they were not popular, due to easily available pirated copies of Microsoft Word.

Lexicon was originally developed at the Computing Center of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR by Ye. N. Veselov.

Lexicon could produce and edit plain text files; at the same time, it could enrich them with various formatting codes (which all started with the character 255 (0xFF)). Lexicon also included a spell checker.

Lexicon supported operations with linear and rectangular blocks; it also had convenient means for drawing tables with box drawing characters.

Lexicon could work with both osnovnaya (primary) and alternativnaya (alternative) character sets. It also included its own screen and printer fonts and keyboard drivers for use with non-russified computers.

## References

1. ↑ Name (1996-07-16). "INTEGRATION FIRM SAVES RUSSIAN WORD PROCESSING PACKAGE" (in en-US). https://techmonitor.ai/technology/integration_firm_saves_russian_word_processing_package.

## See also

* List of word processors

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Word processors

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Open-source|

* AbiWord
* Apache OpenOffice Writer
* Bean (up to v. 2.x)
* Calligra Words
* GNU TeXmacs
* KWord
* LibreOffice Writer
* LyX
* NeoOffice Writer
* OpenOffice Writer
* ShareLaTeX
* Ted

Freeware|

* Adobe Buzzword
* Atlantis Nova
* Bean (since v. 3.x)
* Google Docs
* IBM Lotus Symphony
* Jarte (standard)
* TextMaker (2008)

Retail|

| Cross-platform|

* Adobe InCopy
* Corel WordPerfect (up to v. 9.0)
* Hangul
* Ichitaro
* Kingsoft Writer
* Microsoft Word
* Scrivener
* StarOffice Writer
* TextMaker

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Classic Mac OS only
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* Nisus Writer

MacOS only|

* Apple Pages
* Mellel
* Nisus Writer Express

Windows only|

* Atlantis Word Processor
* Corel WordPerfect (since v. 10.0)
* IBM Lotus Word Pro
* Jarte (enhanced)
* Microsoft Works
* Nota Bene
* MobiSystems OfficeSuite
* PolyEdit
* Scientific WorkPlace
* WordPad
* XyWrite

Hardware word processors (pre-PC)|

* AlphaSmart
* CPT Corporation
* Friden Flexowriter
* IBM Displaywriter System
* IBM MT/ST
* Wang

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