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- Subject: Re: Word Processor??
- Date: 8 Jan 1996 12:53:30 -0500
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- jane johnston (jjohnst@tezcat.com) wrote:
- : I have an Amiga500 with hd and 3 megs of ram running WB 1.3.
- : I have been using Final Copy2 v 2 for awhile and have been very happy
- : with it. However, I plan to do semi-pro or pro writing and there
- : are several problems. I did find it saves to ascii, but the font (I
- : am using the low res screen and have 1084 monitor and can't afford
- : expensive interlace fixes) is very unattractive and even gets a bit
- : hard to read on the screen. The output is beautiful and features are
- : very nice. I also have a Transword, which, imo, is a glorified text ed.
-
- If you are going to do pro writing and submitting your work on disk or
- by network, you will be expected to use a text editor, glorified or not.
-
- The purpose of a text editor is to make the job of producing lots of text
- as easy as possible. If you need to produce hardcopy, you can import your
- text into a publisher, such as FC. Note that lots of DTP's come with
- text editors for that very purpose.
-
- I prefer CygnusEd or Transwrite (I think Transwrite was the editor of
- choice at several (now defunct) Amiga magazines.
-
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