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Article #819Re: WordPerfect Development Continues
From: Neil Greene
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 13:54
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 13:54
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In article <1992Aug19.114425.28150@news.acns.nwu.edu> irving@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Thomas Myers) writes: > In <1992Aug18.173215.16591@deepthought.uucp> deepthought!neil@ms.uky.edu (Neil Greene) writes: > > >I certainly hope WP or some other word processing application for the NeXT will > >support STYLES and DESCRIPTIONS like those found in Ami Pro for Windows. > > >For those of you that have not used Ami, when saving a file a use may enter a > >short description. When opening files, the user may also select to quickly > >view these descriptions as filenames are selected, displaying the files > >description. Very usefull when you have memo1, memo2; boss1, boss2, ..., > >bossn, etc. > > >Does anyone know if this may or may not be supported. What about Appsoft's > >Writenow? > > Certainly WP supports this with Document Summary, which may be manually > modified at any time or (optionally) requested at document save. Opening a > file, however, does not give an option to look at this. > > Also WP has Styles available, and they work pretty handily. I have not seen too many people happy with Word Perfect on the NeXT just yet, although I am sure it has to get better. -- Neil Greene Director, Computer Information Systems ARCI, Inc. President, Kentucky NeXT User Group, Inc. Email: deepthought!neil@ms.uky.edu [NeXTmail]
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!dtix!darwin.sura.net!wupost!ukma!deepthought!neil From: deepthought!neil@ms.uky.edu (Neil Greene) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: WordPerfect Development Continues Message-ID: <1992Aug20.135444.2322@deepthought.uucp> Date: 20 Aug 92 13:54:44 GMT References: <1992Aug19.114425.28150@news.acns.nwu.edu> Sender: neil@deepthought.uucp (Neil Greene) Reply-To: Neil Greene <deepthought!neil@ms.uky.edu> Organization: ARCI, Inc. Lines: 32