#Howdy!
Bob,
I own an IBM. <shudder, gasp> Wordstar is my word processor of choice on that,
although I'm looking into Sprint. As for nothing hurting the Amiga more than
ports of MS-DOS software, I don't see it. With Wordperfect Amiga I can write a
file that can be translated and manipulated in the MS-DOS world. Like it or
not, that's the world than runs most aspects of my industry. And I CERTAINLY
wouldn't use an MS-DOS port on a Mac! Word is a wonderful program if you don't
mind using three key strokes where one will do.
I'm currently looking into Excellence with Ben Blish's kind intervention. But
right now it looks like it slows way down in long documents. I write 50+ to
120+ page documents. What does WP do that DesighText doesn't? I don't know.
You tell me. Does DesignText allow complex stringing and imbedded of macros
that can also pause for user imput (text strings) before proceeding? WP does.
Easily. And despite other people having problems, I've never lost a word or
crashed a disk.
ProWrite is lots of fun, but has no macro capability whatsoever. Scribble
reminds me of a spayed Wordstar. It may be okay as a casual word processor (I
used it for awhile to cut and paste message replies into Online!), but it falls
short in too many
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