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In article <ORRE.92Jun9155307@thalamus.sans.kth.se>, orre@nada.kth.se (Roland Orre) writes...
>John Gallant writes 92-06-09:
>>  ...
>>  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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I personally use WriteNow! on the Mac under Amax with my Amiga.  With 
TrueType installed, your output rivals that on PageStream or ProPage.  Not
to mention that with TrueType, ALL of your programs will take advantage of
the scalable fonts like PageMaker or MacDrawII.  Since the MacOS seems to 
handle cutting and pasting a lot better than the Amiga right now, I would
highly recommend an investment in an Amax system.  Also, if your work is
technical in nature, you can output your work to DeltaGraph (five mice) and
blow the socks of any report or presentation.  (the package allows the setting
of camera angles on 3D plots!)  Anyway, I do a good portion of my desktop
publishing on my Amax except for stuff on PageStream.  PageStream is so much
more flexible on character manipulation since you can treat them as graphic
objects and reshape and resize them to fit. 

I hope this helps...

Alan