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Re: Word Processors

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From: Michael Paul Greelish
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 21:58
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Roger Sheppard writes:

>In article <12159@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> twright@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Tom
Wright) >writes:
>> 
>>   I've been looking for a decent word processor for my ST.  Right now
I'm still
>> using (gasp!) ST-Writer and it's okay, but I'd like to get something
better.  
>> I'm a real fan of Microsoft Word for the Mac, so something similar would be 
>> nice.
>>   Features I would want are:  automatic footnoting, style sheets or
equivalent,
>> ability to import graphics and flow text, variety of font sizes and styles,
>> and Postscript-to-disk output.
>>   Note that I DON'T want a page-layout program, just a word
processor.  I read
>> a review of 1st Word Plus some time back and it seemed to have most of these
>> features.  Can anyone comment?  Plug your favorite program, here's
your chance.
>> 

>Well it looks like you had better start writing one, this is one
>Platform that the Atari lacks...

Au contraire. Try WordFlair II, the descendant of WordUp, which could do
a lot of this. I dunno about the PS to disk, but from what I've heard,
it does the rest, and may do this as well.

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Mike Greelish                      mg20@andrew.cmu.edu
Carnegie Mellon University, Professional Writing major
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Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 17:58:23 -0400 
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Subject: Re: Word Processors
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