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From: scott@max.u.washington.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Disgruntled Word Writer 4 purchaser
Message-ID: <13367.25ebc9d2@max.u.washington.edu>
Date: 28 Feb 90 20:53:38 GMT
References: <8786@shlump.nac.dec.com>
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Organization: University of Washington, Seattle WA
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In article <8786@shlump.nac.dec.com>, alpert@chovax.dec.com (Enemy of the State) writes:
> [looking for a wordprocessor with following features: ]
>
>       1) 40 column word wrap, regardless of how margins are set
>       2) Control over line spacing on at least a paragraph
>          by paragraph basis.
>       3) Text justification
>       4) Recovery of accidently deleted text (within reason,
>          obviously there are memory constraints!)
>       5) Printer driver for Epson-compatible printer (or
>          Panasonic 1124) that supports underlining and bold.
>          Even better would be user-customizable printer driver.
 
I think the wordprocessor that you are most compatible with is
"SpeedScript" by COMPUTE! It does everything of the criterias
mentioned above. With regards to printing/printer, if your
printer supports underlining, bold, pica, elite, fonts, NLQ etc
than those features can be accessed from SpeedScript by incorporating
the printer's ESC commands into your text. I have tested SpeedScript
with many of the Epson/IBM compatible printers and it works flawlessly.
A dictionary/spellchecker is also provided, but this lags somewhat
behind the commercial ones.
 
The entire package which includes SpeedScript, Spellchecker, and
a dozen of other accompaning programs that adds newfeatures to the
original SpeedScript, can be bought for $10 (well, $9.95 to be precise)
from COMPUTE!. Look at a recent issue of COMPUTE! GAZETTE for ordering
form and address.
 
Sincerely,
Scott K. Stephen