On Fri, 14 Jan 2000 01:55:14 +0100, Jan Lentfer wrote:
> What I need this program for is writing essays on my old 386, VGA
> monochrome display, 4MB Toshiba notebook (which I got for free from the
> company I worked for, coz the wanted to trash it :-)))), and then
> exporting them to Win - based Word to add the graphics and final layout.
Hello Jan:
If you are going to be writing essays of a scholarly nature, then you will
need a word-processor suitable for citing sources and quotes and for
producing footnotes and end-notes. You will need a word-processor having
an underline feature for citing a book. For doing footnotes you will need
to be able to superscript numbers.
I don't think there are any free word-processors having features like
these. I have some experience with some very fine commercial DOS
word-processors that are now very "out-dated". You might be able to procure
the old software from second-hand sources for a very low price nowadays.
I have experience with these commercial DOS software packages that I could
highly recommend for word-processing, and having all the features discussed
above:
1. WordStar, version 4 and above
2. WordPerfect (especially version 5.1)
3. Key-Word Pro (Softkey Software Products)
4. Enable (An integrated software package having an excellent word-processor,
a database program, and a spreadsheet program like Lotus 1-2-3. This
software was in widespread use throughout the US Army from ca. 1987 - 1992.
It provides very good support for "foreign" language characters)
Sam Heywood
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