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Jonathan, I use Protext purely for fast word processing. The output capabilities are those of the printer you hang on it. If I want to have even nicer output, I import the text into PageStream. (The snag with this is that my Portuguese teacher is then reluctant to mark my homework as she thinks it a shame to mark such beautiful output. 🙂 As for working with WB2.04, I should think it works, but I haven't tried it yet. (I've got a three day old new Amiga with WB2.04 sitting right behind me, waiting for its hard drive to be delivered.) Protext has been described as "a brute text cruncher… If you need a fast and efficient WP, mail merge or advanced processing features, then this latest version of Protext (5.5) is way out in front." It has comprehensive mail merging facilities, table of contents generation, ability to add numbers in the text (I use it at work to do the accounts). It has widow and orphan control (eliminates single lines of a paragraph at the start and end of a page). It has user-selectable dictionary – you can specify what dictionaries to use to spell check each document. It can spell check as you type. This is fast even when using a floppy-based system, as the 5000 (or 500 if memory is tight) most common words are stored in RAM. Spell checking in batch is very fast as the words are collated and sorted before being spell checked. It handles accents with ease. You can write your own printer driver if your printer can't cope with accents. I wrote a printer driver that handles the cyrillic alphabet (for Russian). I also created a screen font so that with the ability to redefine the keyboard, I am able to type in both English and Russian, switching alphabets by means of the 'caps lock' key. As well as the features you'd expect form any word processor, some of Protext's other features are: Automatic timed save. ARP file requester (so you can use Khalid Aldoseri's wonderful file requester whose name I forget). Line drawing. Automatic time [ MORE ]