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- From: robert@williams.demon.co.uk (Robert Williams)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: keep that crap away from my Amiga
- Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 22:22:00 GMT
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- Philip Chung wrote:
- >Bacon Runner wrote:
-
- >> I have been reading all of these debates about FinalWriter, WordWorth,
- >> and MS Word, and let me tell you, anyone who actually gets beyond the awe
- >> of Word's spectacular features is in for a surprise.
-
- >Yep, I can agree with that. It seems so disk intensive too. But what the
- >current crop of Amiga Wordprocessors need is some of the nicer features of
- >Word implemented well, such as graphic anchors and an equation editor which
- >can edit multiple lines of formulae at once, unlike Mathscript. This is very
- >important to me. I also find the distinct lack of line styles in Final
- >Writer restricting. I will probably end up getting Wordworth and have both
- >Wordworth and Final Writer on my hard disk.
-
- Have you tried EqEd by Brian Aagaard Petersen? Its available on Aminet in
- misc/math AFAIR. EqEd allows multi-line equasions, matricies and has a simple
- tables facility. The current version is a beta but I find it very reliable, I
- use it several times a week and it hasn't failed me once.
-
- >> The bottom line is I can get more done in FW4 because it is a stable
- >> product, despite the fact that it doesn't have any WIZARDS! (sarcasm
- >> intended)
-
- >Stability is everything. I must say that I've never got FW3 to crash even
- >once before.
-
- I agree, I have used Final Writer almost every day since the first release and
- it has been 100% reliable.
-
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