dukelow@cod.UUCP (03/03/87)
Does anyone know of a full SCRIBE implementation for the IBM PC. In particular I would like PostScript printer support. I know about FinalWord II which seems to be a subset of SCRIBE and would also be interested in comments on that product. Bob Dukelow (dukelow@nosc)
cavrak@uvm-gen.UUCP (Steve Cavrak) (03/04/87)
in article <532@cod.UUCP>, dukelow@cod.UUCP (Robert A. Dukelow) says: > Keywords: SCRIBE > > Does anyone know of a full SCRIBE implementation for the IBM PC. > FinalWord II which seems to be a subset of SCRIBE and would also > be interested in comments on that product. > Several of us here have used Final Word (I and) II and like it -- it does what we want and can be configured to look like emacs (mince) and is close enough to SCRIBE to let us move back and forth between VAX/VMS and the PC-6300. The version we have (over a year old) supports Adobe, Apple Laswriter HP Laserjet, Xerox 2700, and Compu- graphics. Documentation is good. And if you don't like the way they did something, you can reprogram it using a decent macro language. But the real reason I'm posting this is a comment on p87 of the March 1987 "PC World" in the Product Outlook column under the heading "Turbo Writing." "Borland International is offering an appealing ... 'Sprint: Thw Word Processor'. ... The firm has put a pop-up menu face on 'Final Word II' and given it company on the form of a capable DOS shell, PostScript support, file headers, a print formatter, and abundant macro source code." ... Hmmm. Editorial Confusion? Cash Infusion? I don't know. -- Stephen J. Cavrak USENET: ...!decvax!dartvax!uvm-gen!cavrak Academic Computing Services CSNET: cavrak@uvm The University of Vermont OtherNET: cavrak%uvm@csnet-relay Burlington, VT 05405 MABELL: (802) 656-3190