Welcome to Transcript. Before diving into the program itself, it might help if you understand a bit of the philosophy behind Transcript. Transcript is designed as a high-performance alternative to other word processors on the Amiga that are too slow for serious writing and editing work. While it is completely suitable for quick letters, Transcript will be greatly appreciated by professional writers, editors, and anyone else whose work involves large documents. Text entry and editing operations have been carefully chosen and implemented for efficiency and simplicity. Document size is limited only by available memory, and there is no speed penalty for large documents. Multiple windows can be used concurrently, working as separate tasks in the Amiga's operating system. And above all, Transcript is easy to use, so that you don't have to do a lot of relearning if you come back to the program after a long absence.
The applications for Transcript are the same as those of a regular word processor, but Transcript lends itself especially well to big jobs and professional work where other programs would bog you down: writing a novel, magazine publishing (several magazines use Transcript as their in-house text editor), and as a preprocessor for desktop publishing and other text-oriented programs. Finally, for the ultimate Amiga desktop publishing system, Transcript and Professional Page are designed to work together, giving you the benefits of efficient document creation and editing, combined with professional quality typeset output.
