#Word Processor Opinions?
14-Oct-92 11:13:45
Sb: #73388-#Word Processor Opinions?
Fm: Central Coast Software 75300,1416
To: Roy S. Laufer 72435,1025
Roy,
Well, since I'm with New Horizons, obviously I'm going to recommend our
product, ProWrite.
ProWrite has won several awards, including AmigaWorld's and recently
Amazing Computing's reader's choice awards, for its power and ease of use.
It has everything you mentioned in your needs (other than index
generation), and is fast–both with typing speed and screen refresh.
Unlike FinalCopy, which uses a proprietary font system, ProWrite uses the
Amiga's built-in font technology, so you have a very wide range of both
bitmap and outline fonts you can use–and fonts are available from a wide
variety of sources (including public domain). This also means that when
Commodore enhances their font system in any way, ProWrite will
automatically take advantage of the changes.
While ProWrite has a detailed user's manual, most people find themselves
never needing to refer to it–the program is that intuitive. Of course, to
learn about the more powerful features, such as AREXX, and ProWrite's mouse
and keyboard shortcuts, you would need to check out the manual.
And speaking of AREXX, ProWrite's AREXX implementation is much more
comprehensive and extensive than _any_ other Amiga word processor. You
have virtually complete control over ProWrite through AREXX. While this
may not seem important to many, it is very easy to learn how to use
ProWrite's AREXX system to do many things otherwise not possible. And the
sample macros we include with ProWrite are a great way to learn how to use
it.
We've just released version 3.3 of ProWrite, which adds many new features.
And future upgrades are planned (ProWrite has been out since 1987, and has
had four major and three minor upgrades over the years). We even post
patches for bug fixes right here on CompuServe. ProWrite is one of the
best supported products on the Amiga–unlike some of our competitors,
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