#Words and Text advice?
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All:
I need a new text editor, and a new word processor. Currently I use
TxEd for programming, and it's gotten a little long in the tooth.
For word processing, I use ProWrite 3.1.1, purchased when a roommate
paid for the update on my copy of Prowrite 1.?? in his name. Kinda
dubious, so I figure I'll have to pay full price to get the new version of
Prowrite. Well, my documents have gotten longer than Prowrite 3.1.1
comfortably supports. I need the ability to manipulate documents at least
twenty pages long, preferably eighty. I don't really need multiple fonts,
just headers and footers, a decent spell checker, and good text
manipulation. Style selections like MS Word on the MAc would be real nice,
too, if such is available? Any recommendations?
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What about Protext 5.5? If you've got enough memory (1Mbyte minimum,
preferably more) you can have huge files – I have several files of the
order of 80 to 100 pages and Protext copes OK – it just takes longer for
global search and replace, as you'd expect. Still fast enough though.
Spelling checking is great – very fast as it sorts all the words into
alphabetic order before checking them. So it doesn't need to spell check
words like 'the' hundreds of times; it just does it once! Plus, it's a
very intelligent spell checker. And you can spell check as you type – very
handy for those of us who are learning to type.
Protext is also great on fonts. Anything your printer can do… It's
easy to make up a printer driver for your printer if it is not already
catered for. And the printer driver can specify menu items. For example,
my printer can do double underlining, and when I run Protext, double
underlining appears as one of the options on the style menu.
And it's got loads and loads of other facilities. It can do automatic
date-stamping of your printouts; footnotes and endnotes; automatic building
of an index and table of contents; automatic elimination of widows and
orphans. Highly recommended.
Shraddhan – via Whap!
Shraddhan-
Thanx for the advice, I'll check ProText out.
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If all you are looking for is a word processor that has "headers and
footers, a decent spell checker, and good text manipulation" then you
should check out QuickWrite from our company (New Horizons). It is
basically a slimmed-down version of ProWrite (no fonts, graphics, or
thesaurus), so it can handle larger documents in the same amount of memory.
It is also file compatible with ProWrite, so if you ever need to add fonts
or graphics to your documents you don't have to convert them to a new word
processor format.
James Bayless
New Horizons Software, Inc.
James-
I'll try out QuickWrite next time I'm at Omni International, my "local
Amiga dealer."
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Trevor, your're from goold old Wa? (seeing the name Omni Intl) — nice to
see another 'local' face 🙂
–jp–seattle–
jp-
Yes, indeed. Born and mostly raised here. I went to Omni, and was
told that they'd not received their shipments of ProWrite 3.2. I did try
FinalCopy, and had mixed feelings. It might be great with a hard drive,
but you better have three drives if you're going to run it from floppies.
The program has the annoying habit of demanding certain disks back in a
_particular_ drive, going totally against Amiga standards. I made the
mistake of popping out the program disk and putting in their FCData disk,
and was condemned forever after (until reboot, actually) to swapping disks
from that particular drive, even though the other floppy might have been
empty. ARRRGH!
Regarding Omni, they've sure come a long way since when I first met
Larry Owens. He was bringing suitcases of software to user group meetings,
and he had at least one copy of _EVERY_ commercial Amiga program in that
suitcase. Then he ran Omni from his living room, until it got too big even
for that. They're apparently still making good money, but the place still
has an unfortunately patchwork feel to it. (sigh) I did get to see my
first CDTV, though. Kinda nifty, and the CD caddy really isn't all _that_
bad, but I'm still not sure I get the point. 🙂
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