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- From: deepthought!neil@ms.uky.edu (Neil Greene)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
- Subject: Re: WordPerfect Development Continues
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.135444.2322@deepthought.uucp>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 13:54:44 GMT
- References: <1992Aug19.114425.28150@news.acns.nwu.edu>
- Sender: neil@deepthought.uucp (Neil Greene)
- Reply-To: Neil Greene <deepthought!neil@ms.uky.edu>
- Organization: ARCI, Inc.
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- In article <1992Aug19.114425.28150@news.acns.nwu.edu>
- irving@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Thomas Myers) writes:
- > In <1992Aug18.173215.16591@deepthought.uucp> deepthought!neil@ms.uky.edu
- (Neil Greene) writes:
- >
- > >I certainly hope WP or some other word processing application for the NeXT
- will
- > >support STYLES and DESCRIPTIONS like those found in Ami Pro for Windows.
- >
- > >For those of you that have not used Ami, when saving a file a use may enter
- a
- > >short description. When opening files, the user may also select to quickly
- > >view these descriptions as filenames are selected, displaying the files
- > >description. Very usefull when you have memo1, memo2; boss1, boss2, ...,
- > >bossn, etc.
- >
- > >Does anyone know if this may or may not be supported. What about Appsoft's
- > >Writenow?
- >
- > Certainly WP supports this with Document Summary, which may be manually
- > modified at any time or (optionally) requested at document save. Opening a
- > file, however, does not give an option to look at this.
- >
- > Also WP has Styles available, and they work pretty handily.
-
- I have not seen too many people happy with Word Perfect on the NeXT just yet,
- although I am sure it has to get better.
- --
- Neil Greene
- Director, Computer Information Systems ARCI, Inc.
- President, Kentucky NeXT User Group, Inc.
- Email: deepthought!neil@ms.uky.edu [NeXTmail]
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