Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!eagle!rstepno
From: rstepno@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Text editing on Macs
Message-ID: <2385@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
Date: 23 Oct 89 01:39:11 GMT
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I'm looking for a plain-text editor for newspaper reporters to use
on dual-floppy Mac SEs. Any suggestions? We have some seriously
computer-phobic reporters, and a seriously limited budget. 
The formatting is done with Quark, but I'd like to create a text
database of previously-published stories (hence the interest in
ASCII files).
Second possibility: If we go with Microsoft Write, is there a utility
program around that will take a folder full of Write documents and
strip them down to ASCII? (Or is Write's file format available so that we can
write our own filter?)
For now, we have some folks using Teach Text (!), some on Write, and a 
couple of us experimenting with MEdit. Qued sounds interesting, but I'm
afraid that it will look too techie for a couple of our people.
Bob                                                              B-)=
       --==THIS is a job for a mild-mannered reporter==--