aden@vf.jsc.nasa.gov (06/11/91)
I currently have Wordperfect on my A500, primarily for my wife, as she is writing a book with it, and doing work for classes in it. After having used it for almost a year and a half, we're about fed up with the little quirks of the system (i.e. footers don't always come out correctly, screen update is shabby, etc...). Therefore, I'm investigating buying a replacement. I like the look of Excellence v2.0, but are there other WP packages out there that can handle large (>50 page) files reliably? Yes, I realize memory addition certainly aids in this. Also, does anyone know of any WP -> Excellence conversion routines? I'd rather not just convert straight ASCII files... :-) Any pointers are greatly appreciated. -- S. Spenser Aden -- Lockheed Engineering and Sciences Co. -- (713) 483-2028 NASA -- Johnson Space Center, Houston -- Flight Data and Evaluation Office aden@vf.jsc.nasa.gov -- Comments are mine alone, not those of LESC or NASA.
koren@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Steve Koren) (06/14/91)
> I like the look of Excellence v2.0, but are there other WP packages out there > that can handle large (>50 page) files reliably? Yes, I realize memory > addition certainly aids in this. Just a comment re: excellence!. I use it on documents several hundred pages in length, and it works great. It can handle documents bigger than memory, as it uses its own internal virtual memory scheme. (At least it does in 2.0). Also has a nice spell checker, thesaurus, etc. I'm quite happy with mine. I've never had it crash either. The only problem I've found is that to actually get formatted ASCII out of it, you have to print to a file and then run the output though a de_ansi program which removes all the ansi color junk. I have a simple program I've written which does this; email me if you want it. - steve
beust@taloa.unice.fr (Cedric Beust) (06/19/91)
In article <37030003@hpfcdc.HP.COM>, koren@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Steve Koren) writes: :... : quite happy with mine. I've never had it crash either. The only problem : I've found is that to actually get formatted ASCII out of it, you have : to print to a file and then run the output though a de_ansi program which : removes all the ansi color junk. I have a simple program I've written : which does this; email me if you want it. Just for general info, there's a wonderful Shareware editor called Textplus (Fish 480) that allows to do this kind of conversion and even edit Powerpacker compressed text files (usually read with ppmore). It is a real Wordprocessor and includes a printer configuration a la Word Perfect (not as sophisticated, though). And many, many more very pleasant features. +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Cedric BEUST University of Nice | | INET: beust@taloa.unice.fr $whoami | | UUCP: llaor.unice.fr!arkonis!beust god (personal alias) | | -- "To be, or not to be...", | | That is illogical, captain! | | -- Spock | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
perley@trub (Donald P Perley) (06/20/91)
In article <1991Jun10.141048.1@vf.jsc.nasa.gov>, aden@vf writes: >I currently have Wordperfect on my A500, primarily for my wife, as she is >writing a book with it, and doing work for classes in it. >I like the look of Excellence v2.0, but are there other WP packages out there >that can handle large (>50 page) files reliably? Yes, I realize memory addition >certainly aids in this. WordPerfect is a little clumsy with very large documents because it has to basically scan the whole document prior to a point to figure out what all the format attributes will be at that point. You spend some time snoozing if you like to randomly jump around. I suspect this will be a problem with most word processors. There are some that store format information at the start of each page, but I don't know any for the amiga off hand. -don perley -- perley@trub.crd.ge.com