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From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The Amiga is loosing ground to I*M and A*ple...
Message-ID: <4600@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 30 Aug 88 20:01:14 GMT
References: <429@gt-ford.gtisqr.UUCP>
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
Lines: 31

in article <429@gt-ford.gtisqr.UUCP>, rick@gtisqr.UUCP (Rick Groeneveld) says:
> Summary: Since when?

> In article <4517@cbmvax.UUCP>, daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes:
>> They sold enough copies of Word Perfect quickly, like in it's first month
>> on the market, to pay for the Amiga port.  I use it myself; nice word
>> processor (fast, that's what counts here).
> 	While WP _is_ a very powerful word processor, it is
> 	also, painfully ssssslllllooooowwww!

While it's rather slow at producing an output file, the screen display is
nice and fast.  That's what I care about, that it can keep up with my typing
at least as well as Emacs or something of that kind.  

As far as power goes, I put it in the "pretty powerful" category.  It
certainly doesn't do as much as TeX, Scribe, or even nroff will, but of
course you don't really have to compile it either.  Sure beats most of
the other Amiga WPs I've used so far; a good portion of them can't handle
automatic footnotes, section numbering or index generation.  WordPerfect
certainly isn't ideal; I'd like more WYSIWYG, smarter document structuring,
tree-structured files, automatic item lists, etc.  Maybe a mix of 
WordPerfect and Mentor's DOC would be ideal.

As far as WordPerfect the company goes, I wish every company supported their
software as well.  I know if I buy something from WordPerfect, it'll do what
I want it to do, I'll be able to figure out how to do it, easily, from the
manual, and if there's a bug, they'll fix it for me, given the feedback.
-- 
Dave Haynie  "The 32 Bit Guy"     Commodore-Amiga  "The Crew That Never Rests"
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