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From: rang@cpsin3.cps.msu.edu (Anton Rang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: What's WriteNow?  Does NextStep support fuzzy fonts?
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Date: 25 Oct 88 12:59:18 GMT
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In-reply-to: janssen@titan.sw.mcc.com's message of 25 Oct 88 03:42:12 GMT


  WriteNow has been available on the Macintosh for a year or two (or
maybe more).  I presume that the version on the NeXT will be similar.
Its approach is basically like most "basic" Mac word processors (say,
MacWrite)--direct control of the text by the user (no control codes,
for instance).  It supports multiple columns and automatic footnoting,
but doesn't have "fancy features" like text wrapped around arbitrary
graphic objects.
  There's a version 2 (which I haven't gotten yet) which is supposed
to add mail merge.  Oh yes, there's a built-in spelling checker;
forgot that.
  I don't know how different the NeXT version will be from the Mac
version, though.  Oh yes...I have no connection with NeXT, or with
T/Maker (who markets WriteNow for Macintosh).

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