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From: mikef@hpspdra.HP.COM (Mike Fischer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Junk=Amiga Wordprocessors & Amiga PrinterDrivers
Message-ID: <13570009@hpspdra.HP.COM>
Date: 26 Dec 89 19:03:37 GMT
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Sorry there were so many problems printing the file.  Sounds like some of
the other responses offer helpful suggestions.  Several of my friends
have ProWrite and are quite happy with it.  I haven't bought a word
processor program yet, mainly because of the type of hassels you went
through.  The answer seems to be in the necessity to become an expert
with whatever program is chosen, a big investment of time.

My approach to editing, formatting and printing similar documents has
been with MicroGNUEmacs (mg2b) on Fish 147, or MicroEMACS (v 3.9e) on
Fish 119 for editing, then proff on Fish 9 (that's right, NINE, this
one has been around for free since about the spring of 1986!) for
formatting.  To print, I direct the output of proff to prt:

A major reason for my choices is the great similarity between proff and
formatters I use at work: nroff and troff, and the same for emacs as
my editor.  My learning investment for these was very short, to get to
basic usefulness, due to reasonable defaults and simple structure.  Then
as I need more capability, I can learn just what I need.
--
Mike Fischer   mikef%hpspd@hplabs.hp.com