Amiga Computing - Commodore Is Awesome

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heading expandable to a full page.
Each of these sections could have any
number of subsections, each
expandable to any size you want.
This setup would be little more than
a neat feature without Wordwright's
index generation facility. Put a
Contents command at the end of the
document, and when printed outit
will have a contents page indexed by
the headings you defined.
Wordwright has quite a powerful
mailmerge facility. Now vou can send
thousands of really sincere letters to
people you've never met.
once tried to use mailmerge to
write job applications. I got no
interviews. Mail Merge — it really
screws you up.
Wordvvright is pretty quick, with
reasonable documentation and good
help facilities. It has menus to
duplicate the most common
commands, but you will need to skip
into command mode for a few
functions.
The oddest thing about Wordwright
is its proportional gadget on the right
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HAMER I: GETTING STARTED
BACKUP PROCEEDURE
MAKING A CLI DISK
STARTING WORDWRIGAT
Once you have the CLI running, you can look at the directory of the
disk which came with Mordwright by using the "DIA" command as shown in
the "AmigaDOS User's Manual". In addition to the executable fi le which
is labled "Wordwright", there are also some sample text files to twit
you get started. Start Wordwright by running the command "Wordwright
After you type "Wordwright" the computer will respond by opening a
window labled "UTILITIES". It will then display the copyright notice dnd
type a prompt (the greater than symbol "Pi). The prompt indicates thdt
the computer is waiting for user input.
There are a wide variety of commands available in the "UTILITIES'
window, but the one of concern at this time is the command "edit". If
you still remember the name of a text fi le, you may read it into the
edit buffer and start editting with the command "edit filename" where
"filename" is the name of the documentation fi le. If you don't remember
the name, type 'die just as if you were still using the normal ELI.
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hand side of the screen. These are
meant to display the size of the
current screen in relation to the
current document.
Wordvvright uses the gadget to
indicate how large the text is in 32k
lumps. Thus the gadget is not
proportional, and isn't really a useful
aid to moving through tbe text.
on one is the same as the Search key
combination on another. And none of
these combinations is exactly the way
I'd want it.
So I would like a wordprocessor
that, no matter which set of keys I
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DME: Lots
of fun with
tots of fonts
It's possible to exit Wordwright
without being told about modified
text. This is a major oversight, and one
which could lose you an entire
document. If you're careful, though, it
should never bother you.
You can find it on the EMPDL and
KADSoft Home Utilities disks, or on
Panorama Disk 48.
pressed. it would know what I meant.
I would also like a word processor that
tan like greased lightning on overtime.
Oh-yeah, and can converse with
ARexx into the bargain.
I have found that word processor. It
is by nature a programmer's text
editor, which warns that "it has not
been designed for user friendliness".
It's called DME, it's Freeware, and
v1.38 lives on Fish Disk 284.
LIME is the text editor that Matt
Dillon wrote when he discovered that
there wasn't a reasonable
programmer's editor for the Amiga.
Matt Dillon is possibly the most
prolific writer of freely distributable
Amiga software, with at least 35 titles
in the Fish collection, ranging from
small hacks to complete network
communication systems.
DIvIE relies on a configuration file to
read in the key definitions. Any
printing key or mouse button can be
redefined to do anything at all. And
with DME's macro programming
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