bam@a.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Brad Myers) (06/14/90)
I am starting a project where I will develop a new kind of text editor (word processor), and would like to start off with an existing WYSIWYG editor, so I don't have to build my own from scratch. Does anyone know if there is a relatively sophisticated editor for the Macintosh that can be used as a base for further development. I would like something like the text object on the NeXT. Obviously, MacWrite, Microsoft Word and the like are "closed" and I cannot make extensions to them or get source code. (Source code would not necessarily be required if the editor allowed full programming and access to the underlying data structures.) I am willing to pay, so commercial products are fine. They should be ready NOW and working and stable. Multiple fonts, paragraph styles and windows are required, and ideally, it would support large documents be written in a high-level language (if source code is supplied). Does anybody know of anything like this? Please send me mail. Brad A. Myers School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890 (412) 268-5150 bam@a.gp.cs.cmu.edu