pv_troia@jhunix (Paolo V Troia-Cancio) (10/10/89)
I'm looking for a word processing program for my Amiga 500.
Unfortunately, the ones I've seen so far (i.e. WordPerfect and
ProWrite) don't have all the features I want. WordPerfect is a
powerful program, but I fell it does not fully take advantage of the
Amiga's capabilities. ProWrite is nice, but its limited on features.
The features I'm interested in are WYSIWYG, good handling of fonts, headers
and footers, and automatic footnoting. The ability to generate
PostScript output would be welcome, but not essential for my needs.
I've heard of Excellence! and PenPal, but have never actually seen
them. If someone has information or has used any of these programs I
would appreciate if he/she could e-mail it to me. Any other
suggestions or recommendations are also welcome.
Thanks in advance.
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a468@mindlink.UUCP (Graham Parkinson) (10/15/89)
As for the utility of Excellence!: Common complaints about it are it's speed. This is not a real problem for most operations considering that it is a WYSIWYG program handling alot of graphics. The frustrations that I have are with handling placing Text accurately whenusing proportional fonts. The screen pisplay oftem shows things very differently than what you get from the printout. The spell check and the thesauras work very well within the program although the spell check should allow the machine to just mark all the mispelled words instead of your having to sit there while it chugs all through the document. Speaking of documents the manual although lavish exhibits very little thought about ease of use. The user has to wade through all sorts of supposedly "user friendly" drivel to actually find anything about the program unlike Superbase 2 which has a truely excellent manual. Many functions such as the macro facility refered to as a glossary are inadequately explained and the index is a joke containing all sorts of contextually incorrect references generated by the progams owm indexing feature working away mindlessly while the dolt that wrote the manual dithered. All in all the program is quite OK. Does anyone know how to get good positioned output while using a proportional fonts. I've tried using Tabs but they only substitute in blanks instead of TABing to an absolute position. The problem wreaks havok when writing resumes etc with short prefixes to lines.