Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!maytag!xenitec!geoffw
From: geoffw@xenitec.on.ca (Geoffrey Welsh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Disgruntled Word Writer 4 purchaser
Message-ID: <1990Mar1.012233.25946@xenitec.on.ca>
Date: 1 Mar 90 01:22:33 GMT
References: <8786@shlump.nac.dec.com>
Reply-To: root@zswamp.fidonet.org (Geoffrey Welsh)
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In article <8786@shlump.nac.dec.com> alpert@chovax.dec.com (Enemy of the State) writes:
>Can anyone suggest alternatives?  My requirements are pretty simple,
>but to summarize, what I'm looking for is: 
>
>	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.
>
>This should be possible, Kwik-Write meets all thes requirements
>except for the last and still has a larger than 30K buffer for text!

   OK, I'm showing personal bias here, but I suggest PaperClip. It
offers all but #4 of the above, and I've found it to be about the
best post-formatting word processor I've used. If you have a C64 (as
opposed to a C128), then you might consider spending the time to
look for an older version, as PaperClip III was ported from the C128
to the C64 and is rather cramped. The original PaperClip 64 had
about 30K text space, I think.

   If the deletion recovery buffer is that big an issue, you might
want to look at WordPro 64 from Pro-Line (AKA the Better Working writer
from Spinnaker). It has generous deletion recovery features, but
tends to work awkwardly in some ways because its functions revolve
around that.

   I don't normally recomment WordPro over PaperClip, since I discarded
WP3 for PaperClip 2.82 on the PET 4032 and, despite occasional trips
to see what the 'other half' is up to, haven't found reason to switch
back. That's not to say that WordPro isn't a good program, only that
I have always liked PaperClip better.

   Geoff

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