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From: curzon@kaoa01.dec.com (Richard Curzon KAO4-3/7A DTN 621-2196)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: pd editors
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Date: Wed, 12-Aug-87 18:31:33 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 12 18:31:33 1987
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re: PD wordprocessors for Atari:

    Textpro is another PD wordprocessor based on the Speedscript
program someone already mentionned.  Textpro has some features 
that no other Atari text processor has.  I am not intimately 
familiar with it yet, but it has a keyboard macro feature, 
so that strings of keystrokes INCLUDING EDITOR COMMANDS can be 
assigned to single keys.  That can be a very powerful feature.  
There is a version that allows room for modem handlers 
so it can be run while a modem is active.  And it features 
an exit to DOS for users of command line DOS's.

     Speedscript itself has a good point that should be
mentionned: it has a uniquely legible text, using the 
special Antic mode 6 (I think), with an exceptionally
clear character set.  It is the easiest on the eyes of all 
Atari 8bit word processors in my opinion -- not bad at
all, for limited word processor use.  
     

				Dick Curzon
				Digital Equipment of Canada
                                PO Box 13000
                                Kanata Ontario      K2K 2A6
                                Canada.

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