peter@polygen.uucp (Peter Ent) (08/11/89)
We are looking for some pretty powerful text processing software to be used as a callable set of functions from X windows-based programs. We'd like the package to include a WYSIWYG input editor and software that handles it afterward (gettings its metrics, displaying it, word-wrapping it, etc.). A lot of what goes on in high-level interface programs nowadays is full-blown word processing: it dialog boxes, when displaying large amounts of text (scrollable areas), when asking for paragraphs of input (such as in cells of tables, in forms, etc.). In our case, the text package must include superscripts, subscripts, multiple font families, typefaces, and sizes. If anyone knows of a package like this to license or for purchase, please let me know. I suspect there are a lot of companies who have had to invent this themselves and would dearly love a standard text library (perhaps Motif has such a thing). Peter Ent Polygen Corp (617) 890-2888, ext 258
graham@fuel.dec.com (kris graham) (08/12/89)
>We are looking for some pretty powerful text processing software.. >We'd like the package to include a WYSIWYG input editor... >If anyone knows of a package like this to license or for purchase... This may sound biased...but DIGITAL has announced DECwrite.... and it has received some good press reviews.....just that I cannot guarantee that it will do *everything* that you want. -- Christopher Graham Digital Equipment Corp Ultrix Resource Center 2 Penn Plaza New York City (Usual disclaimers go in here)
david@ics.COM (David B. Lewis) (08/14/89)
In article <1436@riscy.dec.com>, graham@fuel.dec.com (kris graham) writes: > >We are looking for some pretty powerful text processing software.. > >We'd like the package to include a WYSIWYG input editor... > >If anyone knows of a package like this to license or for purchase... > > This may sound biased...but DIGITAL has announced DECwrite.... > and it has received some good press reviews.....just that I cannot > guarantee that it will do *everything* that you want. I saw some DEC WYSIWYG editor that was reasonable; it may have been DECwrite. The original poster should also check Frame. Information number is 800-U4FRAME. -- David B. Lewis david@ics.com ics!david@buita.bu.edu david%ics.UUCP@buita.bu.edu "An organization designing a system will produce a copy of its own communication structure." - Melvin Conway
mark@DRD.Com (Mark Lawrence) (08/23/89)
} In article <1436@riscy.dec.com>, graham@fuel.dec.com (kris graham) writes: } > This may sound biased...but DIGITAL has announced DECwrite.... } david@ics.COM (David B. Lewis) wrote: } The original poster should also check Frame. Information number is } 800-U4FRAME. I'm not sure you'll be able to get frame on a DEC platform. Something to do with where DEC got the guts of DECWrite from in the first place. -- mark@DRD.Com uunet!apctrc!drd!mark (918) 743-3013