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- From: mwm@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us (Mike Meyer)
- Subject: Re: Looking for a good text formatter
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
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- References: <1992Nov14.215230.10136@vax.oxford.ac.uk> <mwm.2ncb@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us> <41141@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
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- Message-ID: <mwm.2pcb@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 11:58:30 PST
- Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica
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- In <41141@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>, ps296au@sdcc4.ucsd.edu (Steven Cobb) wrote:
- > In article <mwm.2ncb@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us> mwm@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us (Mike Meyer) writes:
- > >In <1992Nov14.215230.10136@vax.oxford.ac.uk>, mc813@vax.oxford.ac.uk wrote:
- > >>
- > >
- > >Avoid them. I tried ARoff, and gave up and bought QuickWrite (at the
- > >suggestion of HT electronics, who get thanked for recommending it).
- > >It's a low-end word processor that does bold/underline, italics, etc
- > >using the Amiga printer escape sequences. Works fine to either an
- > >Epson, a daisy-wheel, or a postscript printer (the latter via the
- > >Postscript preferences printer driver and CMD to another machine,
- > >though).
- > >
- > > <mike
- >
- > What was the price? I'm looking for a _simple_ word processor for
- > my father who has a very low end printer. I tried FinalCopy on the
- > printer and it looked awful since it didn't use the built in fonts
- > of the printer. I take it that QuickWrite _does_ use the printers
- > built in fonts (from your above statement). Can you confirm that
- > for me?
-
- Yes, you've got it exactly right. QuickWrite on the daisy-wheel
- doesn't do italics (unless you have the italics wheel in; in which
- case everything is italics). If you use oddball characters and your
- printer doesn't have them, you get something else. It uses the
- printers fonts, and won't print anything that isn't in them (unless
- the printer driver can build them via overstrikes).
-
- I paid $38 for QuickWrite at my local Amiga dealer.
-
- <mike
-