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PRE1
P - W R I T E R V3.2
If Text Readers are ten-a-penny then Text Editors must
be nine-a-penny. So why offer another, and what is so
special about
P-Writer
anyway?
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First and foremost
P-Writer
is designed to make it easy to produce colorful
and attractive texts. If you have ever struggled to insert text and style
changes using a "normal" editor such as Emacs, or tried to produce a text
with the skeletal facilities offered by such as AnsiWriter you will find
the problem solved by
P-Writer
.
Secondly when preparing illustrated texts it is essential to know where
pages begin and end so that, for example, an animation is not split between
two pages. The paged format matches that of
P-Reader
, and adapts to
PAL
or
NTSC
page sizes as necessary.
Thirdly texts can be loaded and saved in either plain or compressed format.
(
P-Compress
of course).
P-Writer
has all the commands needed for writing texts - two buffers, split
windows, search/search again/search & replace, cut and paste, file requester
(the Arp requester if Arp Library has been installed). It does not have
the multiplicity of buffers, facilities and configurability needed for a
full general-purpose Editor such as Emacs or a Word Processor.
P-Writer
is the third member of
P-Suite
to be released. The full Suite
currently has four programmes and two utilities, also including:
P-Reader
: - all-purpose reader for texts, ILBM pictures, Anim5 animations,
8SVX sounds, which may be compressed or uncompressed. Will also
display special illustrated files which have any of the above
called from the text.
P-Compress
- a highly efficient and very fast
LZH
compression tool based on
the LH-Library by Barthel and Krekel, but modified to control
memory usage. LH-Library itself does not have to be installed.
P-Animate
- an innovative 3D animator that more than holds its own against
any commercial program.
P-Unpack
- utility for unpacking P-Compress PACKs.
P-Check
- utility for checking suitability of pictures and animations for
text illustrations. Included here.
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P-Suite does not rely on installed libraries or handlers (although it is an
advantage to have the Arp Library). Each programme is self-contained and as
easy to use as possible.
To get a copy of the full
P-Suite
disk send four diskettes
(preferably with something interesting on them). One will
be returned.
Try a quick taste of
P-Writer
now. Load a plain text
file and use the keys of the numeric pad to improve its
appearance.
Chas A.Wyndham
1265 Canning Mills Road
Roleystone,
WA 6111
Australia