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From: rblewitt@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (Richard Blewitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Word Processors
Message-ID: <14636@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>
Date: 2 Dec 90 17:48:33 GMT
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In article <1990Dec2.094401.29066@news.iastate.edu> skank@iastate.edu (Skank George L) writes:
>In article <11903@hubcap.clemson.edu> ddyer@hubcap.clemson.edu (Doug) writes:
>>
>>I test drove excellence 2.0 on a 3000. It was awful slow (you watched as
>>your selected text changed font or resized).
>
>     I use Excellence! on my 3000 regurlarly, and like it VERY much thank
>you!  :)  Resizing text might seem a little slow, but only if you reformat
>the entire document, and how many times will you probably do that?  The

I never found the reformat to be that bad, but sometimes there is a
noticable delay when you delete a highlighted block, which is really
anoying.  I will hovever note, that I am using a basic 3000 setup,
with no scrams,  but it still should run faster.  

>spelling checker works well and I really like PostScript output.  I should

The spelling checker is good, but it lacks basic features, like
automaticly changing all of the words with the same misspelling.
I do like the grammer checker, it's something I haven't seen on
other word processers that I have used.  

While postscript may be good, I am having serious problems with
their graphics output.  If your screen has colors, it tries to print
them.  This is not a problem if you have the standard black text on
a white backround, but I much prefer white text on a blue
background, which gets printed a solid black on my printer.  This is
a serious problem that they need to correct soon.  Also, while I'm
on the subject of graphics mode printing, if you hit ESC to stop
printing, the printing stops, but the program locks up, and I can't
even get my printer to go off line.

>also mention that Excellence! is the only Amiga word processor that supports
>virtual memory, so it's possible to edit very large documents (900+ pages),
>if this is a serious consideration for you, then you should consider
>Excellence.

A definate consideration for me,  I have a thesis to write (well,
ok, in 5 years i'll have one to write.  hopefully by then they will
have fixed the bugs.

>>Excellence (on the phone) said that they have no plans now or in the future
>>to support the ESC modes (productivity and 1000*800 whatever) which really
>>stinks.
>
>     That does stink...

we all agree on this one.  Its funny though, they support overscan
perfectly.

						Rick Blewitt
						rblewitt@ucsd.edu