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From: rcopm@yabbie.rmit.oz (Paul Menon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Re: WriteNow
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Date: Tue, 20-Jan-87 16:58:24 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 20 16:58:24 1987
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Dave Whiteman writes... (About WriteNow, a WP program)
    > ...
    > spelling checker, and some features that the other word processing
    > programs do not have.  I do not have enough experience to say
    > whether it is better or worse than the current programs or  better
    > than the planned MS Word 3.0.  Its major flaw in my eyes is that you
    > have to run a separate translator program to convert text, MS Word
    > or MacWrite documents to WriteNow's format...

Maybe I have missed something when using the current word processors,
namely MacWrite and MS Word, but I have never been able to read a Word document
in MacWrite - This has caused a few headaches when printing Mac Tech Notes.
  The index is always a Word document and everything else is MacWrite!!  Now if
there is a WP that comes with a utility translator for the major rivals'
formats, methinks it's a good idea, ie a feature - not a bug.  Whether Dave's
gripe is because the translator is not an integral part of WriteNow, one
answer could be a marketing ploy, ie - use the translator to convert all your
existing documents, and then forget about MacWrite, and umm... wotzizname :).
To have it as one unit is also an admission by the authors of WriteNow that 
the big two are here to stay - negative thinking.





    > 
    > The America's Cup, don't leave Perth without it.
Not on Yer Nelly, Teddy!


Paul Menon.

    Dept of Communication & Electronic Engineering,
    Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology,
    124 Latrobe St, Melbourne, 3000, Australia
 
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