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From: psurge@cs.utexas.edu (Troy Carpenter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari word processors
Summary: Word Processors
Keywords: wordprocessor, wp, 1st word
Message-ID: <13710@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 18 Oct 90 14:42:29 GMT
References: <1990Oct18.013304.8034@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
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In article <1990Oct18.013304.8034@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>, jahromib@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Babak Jahromi) writes:
> 
> What wouldn't I do for a st version of wp (please, with NO windows, NO gem,
> just nice, fast text mode)! But I guess this is a pipe dream...

Try ST Writer Elite.  It is a Freeware? program and it came out in STart not
long ago...there might be more recent versions since then.  I know the version
I use is 6.3 (I think)  I have heard of more recent versions that that, though.

This word processor is just like Atari Writer on the 8 bit computers.  I tried
using most all ST word processors, but I finally returned to this one.  

What really got me about the others is that they all use some kind of special
format.  When printed to the screen, ala the desktop, the characters would be
run together.  I found out this is because the spaces in these programs weren't
real spaces, but non printing characters holding the place of spaces. (argh!)

Also, I found out that most word processors put an EOLN at the end of each 
physical line on the screen.  That might not sound bad, but when you do stuff
on a laptop (with a 40 col. screen)  and only put EOLN's at the end of a 
Paragraph (like most wp's do, the EOLN at the end of the screen line is
"invisible" to you, you know, WYSIWYG!), then when the text is ported over it
runs on forever on one line (you know, the wp is expecting EOLN's after every
line.)  Well, ST Writer does not do that, you can load Ascii files and it will
be ready to print after you add a few formatting commands to set up the page.

Ok, I will get off my soapbox.  Oh, ST writer has a gem mode, if you want it,
but even in gem mode, the editor screen is NOT a gem window...

 



                                Troy Carpenter
                        Department of Computer Sciences
                        THE University of Texas, Austin
                              psurge@cs.utexas.edu

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