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- From: lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun)
- Subject: Re: Wordworth 2 preview (long)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.135738.6781@city.cs>
- Sender: news@city.cs (News)
- Organization: City University, London
- References: <1992Nov19.182018.26089@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 13:57:38 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.182018.26089@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA> tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov19.114518.3048@city.cs> lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun)
- >writes:
- >
- >>Postscript is supported and you can have EPS (encapsulated
- >>post script) images.
- >
- >Terrific. How do you place these EPS graphics in the document?
- >Are you able to preview them?
-
- I think the preview is an approximation rather than full colour.
-
- >>Pictures: you can have hot links, cool links and no links.
- >
- >How are these distinguished from one another?
-
- Hot: Keep image on disk, update document when image is changed.
- Cool: Keep image on disk.
- No: Incorporate image into the document.
-
- >>WordPerfect 5.1 (MSDOS)
- >> Opening and saving: Text, type style, foreign characters,
- >> indents information, and page breaks are maintained.
- >> Typefaces and graphics are discarded
- >
- >Will it then retain characters from the PC extended character set?
- >(eg. line drawing)
-
- Dunno, but there seems to be much mention of various IBM PC fonts.
-
- >>The manual seems to be clear and well written, and covers
- >>a great deal. It is 350 pages. You have to install the program
- >>from 6 floppies. It has Collins English dictionary and thesaurus
- >>with hyphenation. You need at least 1.5M ram, and a 2nd drive of
- >>some sort. Works with WB 1.3, 2 and 3.
- >
- >How does the interface look? (at least from the manual)
-
- Seems to be very good. I very much like the v1.1 interface, so I
- imagine v2 is even better. For example you can set up screen colours,
- and the dozen or so supplied examples are interesting and useful.
-
- >
- >>I rang Digita yesterday as I had not yet received it. Apparently
- >>they were literally inundated with orders for the new version, on
- >>special offer at #59 pounds.
- >
- >Encouraging news. It would be nice to know if they plan any distribution
- >for North America.
-
- There is a demo version of Wordworth 2 on this months Amiga Format
- coverdisk (one of the coverdisks - the other coverdisk contains
- Scribble!). There is a credit to Agfa for allowing use of the
- CG Palatio font for the demo. Prices are #129 normal, #50 upgrade
- from v1.1, #60 upgrade from any old Amiga wp (special offer).
-
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- Lionel Tun (lionel@cs.city.ac.uk)
- Vision Group, City University, London, EC1V 0HB. 071-477 8000 x 3889
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