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From: jlc@goanna.oz (J.L Cybulski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Macintosh Text Editors (long)
Message-ID: <835@goanna.oz>
Date: Sun, 17-May-87 21:37:57 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 17 21:37:57 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 19-May-87 01:19:54 EDT
References: <360@sdics.ucsd.EDU>
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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Keywords: Text editors Word 3.0 Full Write Write Now
Summary: Love for Word 3.0 spell checker

In article <360@sdics.ucsd.EDU>, norman@sdics.ucsd.EDU (Donald A. Norman) writes:
> Some words of praise: Word's spelling corrector, especially its
> ability to make appropriate suggestions,  is the very best I
> have seen.  Whoever did it should be rewarded.

I do not quite agree. I used Mac Lightning with a dictionary and a thesaurus,
its interface was much more advanced than that of Word 3.0. The most important
feature was its interactive mode (ie. spell checking in the background - as
you type).

It WAS because Microsoft changed the way Word handles events (sort of delays
them) and now MacLightning similarly to many other DAs does not work with
Word 3.0.

I agree with Donald that Word 3.0 is a bundle of badly designed and unrelated
features. I actually switched back to Word 1.05 (after spending $$$ on v 3.0).

Jacob