In comparison with
WordPerfect—which WordMARC compared itself against, with the headline "WordPerfect Ain't"—WordMARC's formatting metadata is always hidden. This was considered friendlier to novice users, and less likely to result in mangled documents. Although it was billed as a
WYSIWYG system, it does not provide for display of proportional fonts. It does allow the use of proportional fonts by adjusting the margins based on the current text size using an estimated average character width in version 1. Primeword v2 has font character width tables, and a utility that can generate them from HP font files. Advanced features include Document Assembly (maintaining each chapter of a book in separate files and combining them for printing or to produce a table of contents or index), automatic paragraph numbering, footnotes, endnotes, support for mixed fonts, multi-level equations and scientific characters.{{cite web |title=Experiments in cold fusion|url=https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/5628318 An early version offers support for Japanese characters. The
Unix version of WordMARC supports
PostScript.{{cite web ==Company history==