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Article #16234Re: Macintosh Text Editors (long)
From: J.L Cybulski
Date: Mon, 18 May 1987 01:37
Date: Mon, 18 May 1987 01:37
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In article <360@sdics.ucsd.EDU>, norman@sdics.ucsd.EDU (Donald A. Norman) writes: > Some words of praise: Word's spelling corrector, especially its > ability to make appropriate suggestions, is the very best I > have seen. Whoever did it should be rewarded. I do not quite agree. I used Mac Lightning with a dictionary and a thesaurus, its interface was much more advanced than that of Word 3.0. The most important feature was its interactive mode (ie. spell checking in the background - as you type). It WAS because Microsoft changed the way Word handles events (sort of delays them) and now MacLightning similarly to many other DAs does not work with Word 3.0. I agree with Donald that Word 3.0 is a bundle of badly designed and unrelated features. I actually switched back to Word 1.05 (after spending $$$ on v 3.0). Jacob
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!munnari!moncskermit!goanna!jlc From: jlc@goanna.oz (J.L Cybulski) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Macintosh Text Editors (long) Message-ID: <835@goanna.oz> Date: Sun, 17-May-87 21:37:57 EDT Article-I.D.: goanna.835 Posted: Sun May 17 21:37:57 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 19-May-87 01:19:54 EDT References: <360@sdics.ucsd.EDU> Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia Lines: 18 Keywords: Text editors Word 3.0 Full Write Write Now Summary: Love for Word 3.0 spell checker