Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ucla-cs!ames!ptsfa!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!convex!convext!danny From: danny@convext.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: a *REAL* Amiga Wordprocessor Message-ID: <7600029@convext> Date: Thu, 26-Mar-87 22:35:00 EST Article-I.D.: convext.7600029 Posted: Thu Mar 26 22:35:00 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 3-Apr-87 06:30:49 EST References: <1117@ur-tut.UUCP> Lines: 38 Nf-ID: #R:ur-tut.UUCP:1117:convext:7600029:000:1990 Nf-From: convext.UUCP!danny Mar 26 21:35:00 1987 Scribble is definately worth looking into. I originally had Textcraft so after that, anything is an improvement but.... Scribble is everything I could ever want as a high school student. It opens a resizable window on the workbench so your window is as big as your workbench (Thanx to Matt Dillon for posting morerows...) Scribble is part WYSIWYG and part nroff. Stuff like centering, underlining, and global stuff like page length are set through requestors and are seen on screen. Other stuff like page numbering, headers, footers, and the like are set through nroffish dot commands. For example: .fo=Page #/Title/Dan Wallach Will print at the bottom of each page, the number on the left, Title centered, and Dan Wallach on the right. You can set even and odd footers and headers so that way for double siding all the page numbers can be on the inside... One can preview what will go to the printer by pulling down the Preview entry off a menu. My favorite thing is for stuff not directly supported by Scribble (like double width, superscript, subscript...) it is possible through another flavor of dot commands. .#1=%27[[2v would set up macro 1 to have [[2v (I'm not sure what it means but you get the idea) The macro can be included in the text by hitting ALT-G then the number. A (C) copyright thing then the number is seen in the text. It prints fine. The codes follow the Amiga prt: codes listed on pages 22 to 24 of the AmigaDos 1.2 Enhancer Docs. I'd never use anything else for my work than Scribble. It's the perfect mix between WYSIWYG and nroff with goodies like lots of mouse and lots of keyboard commands, a spell checker (I'm sure there's better but I'm satisfied), and mail merge (haven't used this one but it looks fairly easy). Sorry if this was kind of long. Dan Wallach ...!ihnp4!convex!danny Disclaimer: I have absolutely nothing to do with the company that makes Scribble! I don't even have a blasted idea what the company's name is either!