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Hi Paul: I couldn't let this one go by. Aside from telecomms, Transcript and ProPage are all I do with the Amiga. I'm an editing kind of guy. We did TransAmi (and Transactor) with Transcript. Before Transcript was released the other magazines started using it too! Since we lived all day and all night in ProPage, Transcript was specifically written for text editing prior to typesetting. By the time it was released it was also a WP with print capabilities! 🙂 We were finished making magazines <sigh> by the time the interprocess stuff was done. It's fantastic! I would never think of using anything else. The original Transcript had a (small) fixed buffer size. It was made to edit magazine articles. It went through _dramatic_ transformations to become Transcript as the world knows it. Before that, I found Word Perfect to be so annoying that I said I would never run it again. I was using Speedscript on the 64! If you look at past issues of INFO, you'll see that the last 8-bit program on their `credits' page was PaperClip II. When that disappeared it was replaced by Transcript. It's not a pseudo-DTP program like some of the Amiga WP's but I now think of it as an indispensible adjunct to ProPage. In fact, it virtually ensures that I won't change DTP programs. Run both, highlight anything in PP, press RightA-/ and up pops T with the highlighted text – with or without PP codes. If you hide them you can save the edited text without the codes and have an ASCII file of the finished product. Same key in T sends it back into your PP document. Fast, smart text editing. Just what you want. It's the best thing going! Malcolm