Excellence! 3.0 question
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To Andrew Apold (@MSS): I just purchased (3 weeks ago) Excellence! V2.00b
at World Of Commodore NY. I mailed my registration card in to you as well.
Do I get a discount on the upgrade to V3.0 of Excellence!. I also bought
Prowrite V3.2 at WOC. I found that big documents have faster paragraph and
line inserts on my Amiga 2000 (MC68000) than on Excellence!. I found this
annoying and am now using Prowrite to edit the document. Prowrite doesn't
have all the advanced features of E! but writing the text is more important
to me than fooling around with advanced features like indexing and
footnotes which I will use shortly in Excellence!. The file I'm editing is
over 500K. Also, since E! uses ARexx, will it be possible to use E! V3.0
indexing via ARexx. i.e. a list of words in an ARexx script or in a file
read from an ARexx script could be fed into E! V3.0's indexing
capabilities. Please answer. I would consider the capabilty to handle
control of indexing from ARexx worth the price of the upgrade. Thankyou,
Patrick Beaudine.
Yes, you will get the discount, just send in your reg. card. Yes, it will
be possible to index via arexx, but unless you want every word indexed
(which you might), it would be best to set your indexes manually.
If you feel like writing ARexx, you could come up with a list of words NOT
to index, like "A", "THE", "OF", etc. and have your ARexx program pull
words, check them with your list, and mark them for indexing if they are
not in that list.
You can access any menu options from ARexx.
If you want your index in a separate document, you can do that, too, as you
can open a new document and then paste the index into that.
Andrew…
When I received notice (from MSS, as a registered Scribble! user) of the
release of excellence!, I immediately sent in my order and about a year
later received the promised product. I have kept excellence! up to date by
obtaining the upgrades from MSS as they became available (as I recall, some
were even NO CHARGE – thanks!). About a month ago, I received a mailing
from MSS announcing excellence! 3.0 with the promise of immediate shipment
upon receipt of orders. I faxed my order to MSS (per the instructions) the
same day. Still, I have yet to receive 3.0. PLEASE tell me I'm not going to
have wait a year for it to ship!
Michael
….from the north coast (go Cavs!)
No, ya should see it by the first week of June. Sorry for any delay, we got
a lot of orders….
Andrew, Will Excellence! 3.0 handle PostScript cartridges better? In my
old 2.0 version I must send the first Postscript file to the printre twice
before it prints. As long as I don't terminate excellence! after that all
prints go first time.
I have a laserJet IIp with a PacPage PE cart. All other Postscript
ouputers (ProPage, Pagestream) have not problem.
Also, did MSS provide a way to put escape sequences in the file? I need
that to be able to print envelopes (paper tray select and orientation). I
know they were opposed to it based on WYSIWYG, but some printers need a
little more help than ADos/excellence can supply, like tray selection
commands. Escape sequences are the logical way to do it without having to
do something special for every command.
I was not aware of problems with that postscript cartridge, I will look
into it. No, you cannot insert escape codes.
Andrew,
Sure wuold like those esxcape codes so I could do my paper tray selection
commands in the files that require switching (like envelopes etc).
wmc