Needed: Macintosh Word Processing Toolkit

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From: Brad Myers
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 1990 16:46

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I am starting a project where I will develop a new kind of text editor
(word processor), and would like to start off with an existing WYSIWYG
editor, so I don't have to build my own from scratch.  Does anyone know
if there is a relatively sophisticated editor for the Macintosh that can
be used as a base for further development.  I would like something like
the text object on the NeXT.  Obviously, MacWrite, Microsoft
Word and the like are "closed" and I cannot make extensions to them or
get source code.  (Source code would not necessarily be required if the
editor allowed full programming and access to the underlying data structures.)

I am willing to pay, so commercial products are fine.  They should be ready NOW
and working and stable.   Multiple fonts, paragraph styles and windows
are required, and ideally, it would support large documents be written in a
high-level language (if source code is supplied).

Does anybody know of anything like this?  Please send me mail.

Brad A. Myers
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA  15213-3890
(412) 268-5150
bam@a.gp.cs.cmu.edu

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From: bam@a.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Brad Myers)
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Subject: Needed: Macintosh Word Processing Toolkit
Keywords: Text Editing, Word Processing, Toolkit
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Date: 14 Jun 90 16:46:33 GMT
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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