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From: ed@plx.UUCP (Ed Chaban)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Spreadsheets & stuff
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Date: Fri, 29-Aug-86 14:13:29 EDT
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> runs fine with it, can't say I like their color scheme though. You 
> can save memory by selecting the menu item "limitied colors" or some
> such rather than the extended colors. Since this reduces the number of
> bitplanes used it makes text rendering much faster. One thing I wished
> for in 1.2 but now looks like 1.3 or a custom library ioss "FastText"
> no kerning, no proportional spacing , no fancies, just damn fast. Of
> course Charlies Heath's  TxED is awfully fast so it must be possible.
> 
> 
> -- 
> --Chuck McManis
> uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis   BIX: cmcmanis  ARPAnet: cmcmanis@sun.com
> These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.

On a further note, I find that the color scheme used for Maxiplan graphics
is kind of poor for doing monochrome stuff.  It helps to be able to use
dpaint to spruce the graphs up but dpaint can't do pattern fills
-sigh-


Ed Chaban
Plexus Computers Inc.
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