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From: GORRIEDE@UREGINA1.BITNET (Dennis Robert Gorrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Looking for a wordprocessor
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Date: 1 Nov 89 16:55:41 GMT
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     If you are picky when it comes to wordprocessors (like myself) you might
be waiting a while before you find an Amiga word pro that suits your needs.

At work I prefered MS Word (for ms-dos) over anything else I have used.    It
offers varying levels of wysiwyg display, lots of speed, and is very easy
to learn.  It does not offer wysiwyg fonts, (except for styles), but then I
don't think that wyswig fonts, asside from styles, are worth the loss in
speed.  Wysiwyg formatting (hanging indents, columns, styles) are enough for
me.

But I have not found anything similar for my Amiga, yet.  WordPerfect makes a
good attempt, but I have tried it both on my amiga and new version 5 for
ms-dos.  It seems quite clunky and unfriendly compared to MS Word.

Excellence is too slow, so I don't consider it.  Scribble and other 'dot
command' formating word processors are just not intuitive enough (I like
key-stroke menus).  Texcraft is undoubtedly the easiest to use.  If it were
ten times faster and had spell checking it would probably suffice.

I guess I'm still looking for a wysiwyg formatting word-pro for speed-freaks.
However, most Amiga word-pros cater to those who like to see the pretty fonts
on screen.  Too slow for me.

ASDG -> ever consider designing a word-pro (with wysiwyg formatting) based
        on CygnusEd?  Seriously.

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