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In article <3364@rsch.WISC.EDU> derek@rsch.WISC.EDU (Derek Zahn) writes:
>Hi!  My mother is going to purchase a Macintosh SE and has charged me with
>telling her what software to buy for it.
>
>3) A powerful and easy-to-use WYSIWYG or desktop publishing thing that can
>  output to a LaserWriter (which she is going to purchase).  This should be
>  able to import text from 1) above, pictures from MacPaint, and charts or
>  their data from 2) above, and maybe other things as well.

Ready,Set,Go!3.0 is an excellent WYSIWYG page processor for the Mac 512 or
Plus... I haven't yet heard of any compatibility problems for the Mac SE
(anyone?).  It can do all you mentioned above, and has nice features like
a fully-featured word processor with search and replace, glossaries, and
a 60,000 word spelling checker, automatic or manual kerning, automatic
hyphenation (pretty neat!  doesn't even have to access the disk as you type
things in), automatic snap-to grids for creating text or picture blocks,
editing in five different views (normal, reduced to fit i.e. a full page
fits on the Mac screen, etc.), and a whole truckload of other features.
A significant feature is its ability to flow text around graphics... 
stick in a picture or something similar in the middle of some text columns
and the text will automatically repel from it.

Admittedly 3.0 (which just came out a couple of months ago) is still a bit
buggy, but I haven't been able to crash it yet.  Most of the bugs are just
little annoying quirks and not serious problems.  I used RSG 2.0 for about
a year, and I think that the features added in 3.0 make up for any quirks.
I'm sure they'll be fixed in the next release.

InfoWorld reviewed RSG3.0 this past February 2, and they say it beats the
most recent PageMaker release.  Having never used PageMaker, I can't verify
this.  But RSG3.0 and PageMaker are the top two desktop publishing programs.

John O'Malley
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