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From: grahamt@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Graham Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari word processors
Message-ID: <3650@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: 20 Oct 90 17:24:23 GMT
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From article <1990Oct18.013304.8034@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>, by jahromib@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Babak Jahromi):
> 
> Why on earth isn't there a wordprocessing package for the ST with at least the
> sophistication of wp 4.2 for the ibm?? Doesn't ANY company feel there's money
> to be made writing a decent word processor instead of the crap out there 
> already (1st word, wordwriter, and others that don't even know what the concept
> of a tab is and have the worst printer support possible, even 1st word..)
> 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...

I'm not sure which ST Word Processors the writer knows about.  OK, 1st
Word Plus still expands tabs to spaces (although you can use indents in
some cases to get the same effect as a 'normal' tab), but its printer
support isn't that bad.

I'm not sure if the writer thinks the ST version of WordPerfect is lousy
or whether he doesn't know it exists.  I don't like it much, but I'll
admit it's improved over the years.  (Now if only the UK would get the
US updates faster..)

There are others with a reasonable spread of features (though I've not
tried all of these): Wordup, Script, Protext all come to mind.  I
discount Microsoft Write, which is an unfinished, unloved and
unsupported botch.  It would be nice if someone would translate Le
Redacteur into English: version 3 looks to have all the sophistication
demanded by the writer, and friends who've used it say they won't go
back to anything else.

The trouble is, of course, that these products are not well distributed
in some (most) countries.  The software is out there, but getting it to
the users is difficult.

Graham
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