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From: atwell@utah-cs.UUCP (Bart L. Atwell)
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Subject: Re: 1st WORD Update
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Date: Fri, 17-Oct-86 18:54:38 EDT
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Reply-To: atwell@utah-cs.UUCP (Bart L. Atwell)
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Keywords: What can it do, eh?


>Also, it was my understanding that this new release of 1st Word would
>allow for 2 column output, and the insertion of Degas-format images.
>Now, however, I am getting mixed signals that this is not true. Could
>someone please elaborate on what the enhancements will do?

I have a few other questions about 1st Word as well:

1) Does the new version have ways to make big moves around the screen 
without using the mouse?  In specific does it have an easy beginning of
line or end of line command (like emacs Ctrl-e)?  

2) Is there any way to drive the more "exotic":-) printers like my 
NEC 8023?  (A general OS print driver (accessory ?) would be nice so that
screen dumps to non-Epson printers would turn out)

3) Is hyphenation supported?

4) Are some of the annoying things about the old vesion corrected like

	a.Outputting a blank page on printing
	b.Exiting the edit file on save ( I guess
	  I'm in the habit of frequently saving)


For now, 1st Word fills most of my word processing needs but in the future
I may be needing a more complete (spell checking, hyphenation, footnoting,
etc) WP.  What other WPs are available and what will they offer.

Thanks in advance,

Bart Atwell