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From: oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicarious Oyster)
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Subject: Re: REVIEW OF "WORD WRITER ST" WORD PROCESSOR
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Date: Tue, 28-Oct-86 10:06:10 EST
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Posted: Tue Oct 28 10:06:10 1986
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In an article, "V5130B::MENTON" <menton@v5130b.decnet> writes:
>
>     Several  of  us  at  work  (and  home)  have  changed  word 
>processors  recently  from "1st Word" to "Word  Writer  ST",  by 
>Timeworks.    It  may  be  short  of  the  next-generation  word 
>processors  that  we're  waiting for,  but here's  some  of  its 
>features:
>
> 7.  Ability to imbed printer control codes, which are hidden in 
>     the  text on the monitor (but can be displayed by  clicking 
>     on a check mark in the left border).
...
>     We  like it.   I recommend it for consideration as your  ST 
>word processor.  I have no affiliation with Timeworks, or anyone 
>else in the computer or software industries.

   This is nice, but I'm still looking for a word-processing program which
I can give enough information about my printer to have it reliably
justify text when I use my printer's proportionial font(s).  Can it do
that?  I realize that this isn't a simple thing to do (a company I worked
for which had their own laser printer (with proportional fonts) and their
own word-processor couldn't handle it), but it'd be necessary for any
non-trivial applications.  Actually, will (does) GDOS have this ability?
(It sure would be nice to have a *full* GEM...)
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 - Joel ({allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!oyster)