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Article #13920Re: Word Processor preferences
From: Dalea Ferrier
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1992 16:15
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1992 16:15
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In article <1992Jun11.085114.1@cc.newcastle.edu.au> birjt@cc.newcastle.edu.au writes: >In article <1992Jun10.100730.8922@latcs1.lat.oz.au>, burton@latcs1.lat.oz.au (James Burton) writes: <stuff deleted> >>>asking anyone for comments on the following :- >>> >>> Prowrite, Excellence, Wordworth, Penpal etc. >>> >>>Thanks in anticipation, <stuff about ProWrite deleted> >Hello, > On a sligtly related note, I just received Excellence! v3 in the mail. >Looks like mostly cosmetic changes but they are very well done. The requestors >have had their much needed upgrade and the display is fully OS2.0 compatible. > Apart from that there does seem to be too much in the way of >enhancements, but I have not had time to look closely. One feature I did like >was the ability to have it read a file back to you. At first this seemed a bit >of a wank but when I tried it on some work I had done recently I was surprised >at how it showed the readability (is this a word) of the text. > >Have fun, > >Russell > >Russell Tayler, Biology Dept, Uni of Newcastle, OZ > BIRJT@cc.newcastle.edu.au > <Proof reading is for wimps> According to other posters in this group Excellenc3.0 is indeed very nice but there are some bugs in the postscript support and also in the way it prints to non-postscript printers. Well not really a bug to the non-ps printers but just that it prints like a screen dump at screen resolution instead of the printers have you had any experience with the above? -Dale We the people are not free. Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee. We elect expensive masters to do our work for us, and then blame them because they work for themselves and for their class. -Helen Keller --> k198df@tamuts.tamu.edu
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f6f0c,e8f5ba711848d4f9 X-Google-Attributes: gidf6f0c,public X-Google-Thread: fee24,e8f5ba711848d4f9 X-Google-Attributes: gidfee24,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-06-22 03:40:22 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!bcm!tamsun.tamu.edu!tamuts!k198df From: k198df@tamuts.tamu.edu (Dalea Ferrier) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,aus.computers.amiga Subject: Re: Word Processor preferences Summary: Excellence really looks nice but... Keywords: Excellence3.0 Message-ID: <1992Jun22.161543.10147@tamsun.tamu.edu> Date: 22 Jun 1992 16:15:43 GMT References: <1992Jun9.034923.9544@newshost.anu.edu.au> <1992Jun10.100730.8922@latcs1.lat.oz.au> <1992Jun11.085114.1@cc.newcastle.edu.au> Sender: news@tamsun.tamu.edu (Read News) Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station Lines: 42