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: word processor inquiry results

A couple of months ago, I asked the ST net users for infos about their
favorite word processor. Thanks a lot to all the people who gave me
their recommendations.

The answers I got were very diversified.  The majority of the word
processor users were very happy with Word Perfect.  They point out
that WP includes a thesausus, a dictionary and some well-thought
features.  Also, the latest version is said to be bug-free, according
to those users.  A minor revision was shipped at the beginning of the
year.  Phone support is great.  Just don't use WP with the Atari
laser printer.  So it seems to be THE word processor for intensive
use (Me, I just use emacs and TeX for large documents to get some of
the DTP features included in WP. But we are not talking about an easy
to use configuration here, folks, TeX is a programming language, but
the price is hard to beat -- both packages are PD).  

Also, I just got First Word Plus version 3.14 (UK).  It's good old
First Word Plus, but much faster (a 140K document load from my SH 205
in 18 s instead of 34 s for the version 2.02) and it now has keyboard
commands for almost all the GEM menu items.  The dictionary is very
poor, so it cannot be a purchase criterion.  The graphics are now GEM
.IMG files only and the display is quick.  The DTP features are
limited to footnotes and page headers.  This prog is good for
beginners who don't want to learn the huge command set of other, more
performant packages, and it's quite cheap (upgrade from v2.02 is 50
sterlings) compared to the $250 Word Perfect.

Regards,

     Frederic Mora                              GEnie:
     The College of William and Mary            F.MORA
     Dept. of Computer Science                  INTERNET:
     Williamsburg, VA. 23185                    fjmora@cs.wm.edu
     USA                                        

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