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From: david@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (David E. Smyth)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Mac style "Word Processor" under X?
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Date: 2 May 90 21:26:35 GMT
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In article <1990May2.044830.19927@spock.UUCP> eric@spock.UUCP (Eric Volpe) writes:
>Anybody know of a WYSIWYG "Word Processor" for quasi-computer-illiterate
>(or at least computer-phobic) users who can't deal with embedded formatting
>commands, editors, and formatters? I'd hope for something that would 
>let them fiddle around with fonts and sizes and adjusting/filling, etc...
>Is there anything like this out there? (I haven't gotten X11R4 yet, maybe
>on there?) 

Contact Island Graphics.  We Beta releases of their IslandWrite,
IslandPaint, and IslandDraw here.  These programs are sorta like
MacWrite, etc. and SunWrite, etc, but they use the Motif user
interface!  GREAT stuff!

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