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From: Fat.Tag@SU-SIERRA.ARPA (Tim Gonsalves)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: The Final Word version 2
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Date: Sun, 29-Sep-85 11:59:13 EDT
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Last week I received an announcement of The Final Word II from Mark of the
Unicorn.  The list price is $400 and owners of TFW 1.x can upgrade for $95
(exactly the increase in list price).  If all they say in the 8-page
booklet is correct and of the same quality at TFW 1.x, Mark of the Unicorn
will once again have about the best editor for a micro.  In addition, the
formatter seems to have been made sufficiently flexible to be useful for a
wider range of documents than letters and manuals.  Available for PC/MS-DOS.

Some of the features listed in the booklet:

	Editor:

. user-programmable commands in a macro language [how powerful is this?]

. Emacs customization of keyboard supplied in addition to TFW layout.

. mouse support

. full path names, DOS commands, faster screen display

. 24 files, 6 windows, wild-card searches.

Alas, 192K required [how big are the disk files?]

. integrated spelling checker/corrector; dictionary may be modified.
Requires 256K. With 448K, checks spelling as you type.

Formatter:

A large number of changes, the most interesting, to me, being the ability
to change existing formatting commands and create new ones [are these the
same as Modify and Define in Scribe?  How compatible is the formatter with
Scribe?].

Also, multi-column documents, overprinting, user-defineable templates for
various counters.  Better printer support, includes different width/height
tables for each font; support for laser printers - Apple Laserwriter, HP
LaserJet, Adobe Postscript-equipped printers.

Configuration is said to be easier.  Terminal lengths upto 120 lines
supported.

The current address of MoU is:
	Mark of the Unicorn, Inc.
	222 Third Street
	Cambridge, MA 02142
	(617) 576-2760

Comments from anyone who has the new version would be appreciated.

				Tim Gonsalves
					Gonsalves@SU-Sierra.Arpa
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