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From: skank@iastate.edu (Skank George L)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: When will new WordPerfect be available?
Keywords: WordPerfect
Message-ID: <1991Jan13.092642.17590@news.iastate.edu>
Date: 13 Jan 91 09:26:42 GMT
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In article <1991Jan12.223304.28382@contact.uucp> ben@contact.uucp (Ben Eng) writes:
>In <510@pallas.athenanet.com> wally@pallas.athenanet.com (Wally Hartshorn) writes:
>
>>I use version 5.1 at work on a DOS machine and am VERY envious!  I'd
>>be happy if WordPerfect would just port over the non-graphics features
>>and release a 4.5 or something.  Perhaps now that the A3000 is out and
>>seems to be gaining popularity with the professional crowd we might be
>>able to talk WordPerfect into upgrading the Amiga version.
>
>Additionally, the Amiga is such a superior environment for TeX because
>it is multitasking.  Arexx allows one to have a completely integrated
>environment.  With ARexx, CygnusEd, TeX, preview, ISpell, MetaFont,
>and some DVI printer drivers the AmigaTeX environment becomes much
>more desirable than WP5 or any other WYSIWYG system.

	I'd like to put in a plug for MSS Excellence.  For those of you
who don't need the powerfull mathematical formatting capabilities of TeX
there is MSS Excellence.  Excellence 2.0 is a WYSIWYG word processor that
supports postscript (even color postscript!), and virtual memory.  The
program is stable under 2.0 and seems to multitask very well.  Excellence
has a large dictionary (to check your spelling :) and a large thesarus (for
those hard to describe things).  I've heard that it is similar to Microsoft
Word, though I've never used Word.  That may or may not be a good point for
people here.  At least using the PostScript fonts, Excellence seems to be
reasonably true to its WYSIWYG claim.

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George L. Skank			|
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