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From: tdrinkar@cosmos.acs.calpoly.edu (Terrell Drinkard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Text editing on Macs
Message-ID: <1989Oct23.081251.21268@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 23 Oct 89 08:12:51 GMT
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In article <2385@eagle.wesleyan.edu> rstepno@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
>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, have you considered getting an old version of MacWrite and
have it save files in text only format?
 
The neat solution would seem to be replacing your paranoid
reporters with some who aren't terrified of computers.  8-)
 
But then, I read the papers, so I have some idea of what you are up
against...
 
Terry


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