Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!columbia!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!POMONA.BITNET!MAINT From: MAINT@POMONA.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: BITNET mail follows Message-ID: <8704222122.aa03280@SPARK.BRL.ARPA> Date: Wed, 22-Apr-87 20:04:00 EST Article-I.D.: SPARK.8704222122.aa03280 Posted: Wed Apr 22 20:04:00 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Apr-87 13:45:52 EST Sender: uucp@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 48 Received: from BRL-SMOKE.ARPA by wiscvm.wisc.edu on 04/20/87 at 08:31:27 CDT Received: from BRL-SMOKE.ARPA by SMOKE.BRL.ARPA id aa23413; 20 Apr 87 8:19 EDT Received: from BRL-SPARK.ARPA by SMOKE.BRL.ARPA id ab22922; 20 Apr 87 8:11 EDT Received: from UCBVAX.Berkeley.EDU by SPARK.BRL.ARPA id aa08035; 20 Apr 87 7:57 EDT Received: by ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (5.57/1.23) id AA21800; Sun, 19 Apr 87 23:40:29 PST Received: from USENET by ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU with netnews for info-apple@brl.arpa (info-apple@brl.arpa) (contact usenet@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU if you have questions) Date: 20 Apr 87 05:43:56 GMT From: Jack Fine Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA Subject: //gs wordprocessors Message-Id: <629@pbhyc.UUCP> Sender: info-apple-request@BRL.ARPA To: info-apple@BRL.ARPA I have been following this news group carefully trying to get as much insight as I can on programs for the //gs. I bought appleworks but I am not sure that was the best choice although it is an integrated package and does work with the gsram nicely. I did buy Paintworks plus and it is nice especially the color printing (my son and I had fun this easter making paper easter eggs.) but I have had problems with it locking up on me as others have mentioned with the lasso and in other cases as well (double clicked and missed target. Menu did a funny shade change with two choices indicated at once and whole thing quit responding.) Don't get me wrong I really like the program but hope they fix the problems and offer an inexpensive upgrade. Now to my point. I would really like to get a good mac-like wordprocessor. I took a look at Wordperfect but it doesn't support pulldown menus (didn't have the thesaurus built-in either). Multiscribe for the //gs has some nice features but wasn't as smooth as I would like and it didn't have a spell checker or a thesaurus. Mousewrite was very hard to get the mouse to work properly and just didn't have as nice a user interface as Multiscribe. It did have a minimal dictionary spell checker. In someways I am spoiled with ms-dos based software. It will be nice when a really good mouse interface with full pulldown windows wordprocessor is available that also has all the features that have been around for a long time on other systems. Like a thesaurus and a spell checker, color screen and text changer an undo command and of course if it can incorporate Paintworks plus graphics that would be real nice too. Anyone know of a wp that will do this now or is it a matter of waiting? Jack