From: lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun)
Subject: Wordworth 2 preview (long)
Organization: City University, London
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 11:45:18 GMT

I have just received my Wordworth 2, but unfortunately
cannot try it out (A3000 still waiting to be looked at
after 2.5 weeks - thanks to the Commodore Service Centre
at Wang).

However flicking throught the manual....

AgfaFonts:
CG Palacio
Courier
Goudy Handtooled
IBM PC Courier
Shannon Bold
Univers Medium
Math Roman (Bold san serif, Bold serif, Sans serif, Serif)
ITC Benguiat Book
IBM PC ITC Benguiat Book
ITC Zapf Dingbats (100, 200, 300)
Park Avenue
Signet Roundhand
Univers Medium Condensed

ColorFonts:
DigitaChrome1
DigitaChrome2
DigitaGold
(24, 48 and 96 point, 16 colors))

Printer Fonts:
There are pages and pages of named printers and their internal
font set. WW can mix graphics and internal fonts of a printer.
For example it lists HP DeskJet500 (actually 17 HP printers in
all), 20 NEC printers including P7 and P2200, Canon BJ10ex in
Canon mode and EpsonQ mode.

Other tidbits:
Postscript is supported and you can have EPS (encapsulated
post script) images. Pictures: you can have hot links, cool
links and no links.
Page preview can be in Facing pages, Several or Thumbnail.
You can insert Bookmarks to jump to a place in a long
document.
There is a screensaver, there's speech. There is some mention
of tracking and kerning.


File Formats:

Wordworth (Normal and Kindwords3) Format
   Opening and saving: All text, typefaces, type styles,
   paragraph formatting, page breaks, page sizes, and graphics

ASCII Text Format (Scribble and Transcript)
   Opening: All characters are read as text characters. Carriage
   returns or line feeds are treated as paragraph breaks
   Saving: Only text and paragraph breaks. All typeface, type
   style, paragraph formatting, graphics, page breaks and page
   size information is discarded

Prowrite and Quickwrite Format
   Opening and saving: All text, typeface and type style information
   is maintained. Most paragraph formatting is maintained, but not
   default tabs. Graphics are discarded

Amiga WordPerfect Format
   Opening and saving: All text, type style, paragraph alignment
   information, and page breaks are maintained. Typefaces and
   graphics are discarded

IFF Text of FTXT (Kindwords2, Excellence) Format
   Opening and saving: All text is stored and retrieved.
   Kindwords type style changes and graphics are maintained.
   Paragraph formatting, page sizes and typefaces are discarded

Protext Format
   Opening and saving: Text, type style, paragraph alignment
   information, and page breaks are maintained. Typefaces and 
   graphics are discarded  

RTF (Rich Text Format)
   Opening and saving: Text, type style, foreign characters,
   indents, paragraph alignment information, and page breaks are
   maintained. Typefaces and graphics are discarded   

WordPerfect 5.1 (MSDOS)
   Opening and saving: Text, type style, foreign characters, 
   indents information, and page breaks are maintained.
   Typefaces and graphics are discarded   

Microsoft Word (MSDOS)
   Opening and saving: Text, type style, foreign characters,
   indents, paragraph alignment information, and page breaks are
   maintained. Typefaces and graphics are discarded

MS Windows Write
   Opening and saving: Text, type style, foreign characters,   
   indents, paragraph alignment information, and page breaks are
   maintained. Typefaces and graphics are discarded



The manual seems to be clear and well written, and covers
a great deal. It is 350 pages. You have to install the program
from 6 floppies. It has Collins English dictionary and thesaurus
with hyphenation. You need at least 1.5M ram, and a 2nd drive of
some sort. Works with WB 1.3, 2 and 3.


All this is from reading the manual. I have not actually run
the program so I don't know how fast it is for example. I am
sure speed would be acceptable on an A4000 or an A1200 (or
even an A3000). I know v1.1 was often slow on an unaccelerated
A2000 with a 50 page document. Also I have not (obviously) tried
the print quality, but I am given to understand it would use the
maximum resolution of the printer.

Side note:
I rang Digita yesterday as I had not yet received it. Apparently
they were literally inundated with orders for the new version, on
special offer at #59 pounds. They were working round the clock
packing and sending off orders and there is a week or more back
log. Quite remarkable in these recession hit times.


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Lionel Tun   (lionel@cs.city.ac.uk)
Vision Group, City University, London, EC1V 0HB. 071-477 8000 x 3889
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