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ANNOUNCE: SciTeXt, WYSIWYG UN*X WORDPROCESSOR

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From: Matthias Greim
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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