jdf@pbhyc.UUCP (Jack Fine) (04/20/87)
I have been following this news group carefully trying to get as much insight as I can on programs for the //gs. I bought appleworks but I am not sure that was the best choice although it is an integrated package and does work with the gsram nicely. I did buy Paintworks plus and it is nice especially the color printing (my son and I had fun this easter making paper easter eggs.) but I have had problems with it locking up on me as others have mentioned with the lasso and in other cases as well (double clicked and missed target. Menu did a funny shade change with two choices indicated at once and whole thing quit responding.) Don't get me wrong I really like the program but hope they fix the problems and offer an inexpensive upgrade. Now to my point. I would really like to get a good mac-like wordprocessor. I took a look at Wordperfect but it doesn't support pulldown menus (didn't have the thesaurus built-in either). Multiscribe for the //gs has some nice features but wasn't as smooth as I would like and it didn't have a spell checker or a thesaurus. Mousewrite was very hard to get the mouse to work properly and just didn't have as nice a user interface as Multiscribe. It did have a minimal dictionary spell checker. In someways I am spoiled with ms-dos based software. It will be nice when a really good mouse interface with full pulldown windows wordprocessor is available that also has all the features that have been around for a long time on other systems. Like a thesaurus and a spell checker, color screen and text changer an undo command and of course if it can incorporate Paintworks plus graphics that would be real nice too. Anyone know of a wp that will do this now or is it a matter of waiting? Jack