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Article #58248ANNOUNCE: SciTeXt, WYSIWYG UN*X WORDPROCESSOR
From: Matthias Greim
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 1996 00:00
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 1996 00:00
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This message is to announce the release of alpha version 0.1 of SciTeXt
What's SciTeXt?
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SciTeXt is a new wordprocessor for UN|X - Systems. It tries to combine the
requirement of a modern office-packet. The following list enumerates some
of its most important features.
o User-Interface
Objectoriented handling
Full WYSIWYG with free choice of zoom
Supports Type-1 PostScript fonts
Contextsensitive toolbars with bubble help
Independent of language by a special Translation-Table
Free keyboard and menu shortcuts with a configurable
ActionEvent-Table
Online help with own Tcl/Tk helpbrowser
Userinstallation with Tcl/Tk-Script
o Wordprocessing
Parapraph- and Documenttemplates
Auto-Correction, spellchecker, Thesaurus; no data yet :-(
Footnotes, table of contents, indices, chapternumbering, glossary
Itemize and enumeration
o Layout
Free frames for text, graphic etc.
Formulars
Tables, charts, mathmatical plots
o Documentexchange
Send and receive SciTeXt documents via E-Mail
Drag & Drop
Many import- and exportfilters for text und graphic
Faxing of documents
o Miscellaneous
Variable choice of printer with automatic detection of usability
Usable as an Integrated Development Environment similar to WEB
Go and get it
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The package is freely available to anyone for commercial or
non-commercial use, and can be ftp'ed from the following site:
http://www.uni-paderborn.de/~SciTeXt/archives/getSciTeXt.html
We also have a homepage with many screenshots:
http://www.uni-paderborn.de/~SciTeXt/
Support and Report
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For further discussions about new releases, bugs, hints and clues, we have
installed a mailinglist. For subscription just fill out the form on our
Homepage. Otherwise you can write a mail to server@uni-paderborn.de with
the following text in the body of the message:
subscribe scitext
Or write us directly: [angus|ulliull]@uni-paderborn.de. But please, if you
can, prefer the mailinglist, so we can distinguish between private mail and
SciTeXt mail. That way everybody interested in SciTeXt can profit from that
mailinglist.
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