Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!munnari!uqcspe!qfdts!gucis!derek
From: derek@gucis.oz (Derek Austin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Something that does fast expansion of text abbreviations?
Message-ID: <592@gucis.oz>
Date: 25 Jan 88 07:53:44 GMT
Reply-To: derek@gucis (Derek Austin)
Organization: The Byte Centre, 49 Park Rd., Milton, 4064. AUSTRALIA.
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In the dim dark world that was the pre-megabyte mac, there was a
nifty DA that let you store a table of abbreviations and that DA
would then expand them for you, wherever you were. This sort of thing
was useful in MacWrite, for example, which doesn't have any sort of
glossary facility.

Now with the coming of the SEs etc, this DA no longer worked (I can't
remember its name).

Does anyone know of either a similar DA or a word processor that will let
you type  in an abbreviation that will be automatically expanded as soon as 
you type white space? OR, a word processor that does the same? OR, a word
processor that had a glossary facility similar to the old Microsoft Word 1.05
where you typed one keystroke after the abbreviation to expand it?

I need this for an application where typing speed is of the essence. It must
run on a Macintosh SE.


Any help would be very appreciated.

Thanks,

	derek

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