rang@BONNIE.ICS.UCI.EDU (10/31/89)
* my first posting, how exciting * I'm looking for a new wordprocessor. I've got an A500 with 1 Meg RAM and an Epson LQ500. This is what I'd like: 1) WYSIWYG (or reasonably close) particularly, in printing out to my printer. 2) spell checking 3) proportional fonts (my printers got 'em, I'd like to use 'em) 4) various font that meet 1) (an extra, I could live with just the fonts built into my printer) 5) import/incorporate graphics into the text (another extra , I could do without) 6) realtively cheap I'm using an old version of Textcraft, which barely gets the small jobs done. I've used Excellence and really like the features, but the printouts are not even letter-quality. The fonts look fat and fuzzy. I'm a Mac convert and have been spoiled by the various wordprocessors avialable to it. Please respond by e-mail, or you may want to post it to this board since I saw a simialr posting. Roger P. Ang (rang@BONNIE.ICS.UCI.EDU) Irvine? Where's Irvine? a poor Grad student at the In the heart of the Orange Curtain. Dept. of Information & Computer Sci. Oh no! The poor fool. Univ. of California, Irvine.
GORRIEDE@UREGINA1.BITNET (Dennis Robert Gorrie) (11/02/89)
If you are picky when it comes to wordprocessors (like myself) you might
be waiting a while before you find an Amiga word pro that suits your needs.
At work I prefered MS Word (for ms-dos) over anything else I have used. It
offers varying levels of wysiwyg display, lots of speed, and is very easy
to learn. It does not offer wysiwyg fonts, (except for styles), but then I
don't think that wyswig fonts, asside from styles, are worth the loss in
speed. Wysiwyg formatting (hanging indents, columns, styles) are enough for
me.
But I have not found anything similar for my Amiga, yet. WordPerfect makes a
good attempt, but I have tried it both on my amiga and new version 5 for
ms-dos. It seems quite clunky and unfriendly compared to MS Word.
Excellence is too slow, so I don't consider it. Scribble and other 'dot
command' formating word processors are just not intuitive enough (I like
key-stroke menus). Texcraft is undoubtedly the easiest to use. If it were
ten times faster and had spell checking it would probably suffice.
I guess I'm still looking for a wysiwyg formatting word-pro for speed-freaks.
However, most Amiga word-pros cater to those who like to see the pretty fonts
on screen. Too slow for me.
ASDG -> ever consider designing a word-pro (with wysiwyg formatting) based
on CygnusEd? Seriously.
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