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John Gallant writes 92-06-09:
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>  I need some comments from Amiga users on wordprocessors for the Amiga. 
>  We have decided to buy a REALLY good wp to overcome problems with
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>  Kindwords ( a load of #$@*  ! ), and the  unuser-friendliness of
>  WordPerfect on the Bridgeboard. ...

What do you mean with good wp? Do you mean one that gives the best
possible result or one that is as simple as possible to use. Should
it be a childs play to write an illustrated book with it? Does the
unuser-friendliness of the WordPerfect you are using now come from
WordPerfect or the BridgeBoard? Do you want it to be easy to write
equations and making indexes and references with?

I can not speak for WordPerfect as I don't know WordPerfect but there
is one common problem with all WYSIWYG word processors for the Amiga
that I know. They all lack the possibility for an object oriented
view of the text. In fact the only WYSIWYG I know of that has this is
MS Word. This does not mean that I like MS Word and that is really
not easy to use regarding some functions. Such simple things as
figure references and indexes are hard work with MS Word. I have used
MS Word a lot on both PC and Mac. For a while I used MS Word on my
Amiga running under A-Max but now I am glad that I don't need to use
MS Word longer.

I want to say to those developers of WYSIWYGs for the Amiga:
Please take inspiration from MS Word regarding the object oriented
styles and arbitrary key redefinition (I want an Emacs-style keyboard)
but don't mimic the rest! It can although be good to be able to read and
write MS Word format as people may have to use that at their work. (I was)

The most important thing with a word processor is not that it is
WYSIWYG, it is that you rather easy can make the written output look
as you want.

For my own it was only one possible way to go. Go and get AmigaTeX.
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Now I can write the text in the best editor possible, GNU Emacs
and then get an output that is perfect. Pictures can be included in
IFF and PostScript. I prefer PostScript as that is portable. For the
spelling and grammar check I use "Proper Grammar" (I have to do a
dvitty first). As I do a lot of mathematics I use Maple that can output
the tested equations in LaTeX format. One thing that I lack may be a
thesaurus that is often available in word processors like ProWrite,
Excellence! and WordPerfect but to interface a thesaurus with GNU Emacs,
that would be childs play, if I had one.

"What is user friendliness when the mouse get stuck in a hole?"
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