I tried it, based on Harold's recommendation. It does have some nifty features for writers, such as links to useful sites and a conversion tool from smart quotes to straight quotes. Each file is saved with up to four "pads" for those irrelevant but important brainstorms that occur while writing.
Those are good ideas, and there are others. I would be happy to use it and then export the final product to Word for printing. I'd also like to mention two annoying bugs. 1. It does not have an export feature to Word. It exports to RTF. That means that N-dashes and M-dashes are converted to regular (shorter) dashes. Tables are not exported properly. Editors, or those who publish to the web will not be happy with those limitations. An export option to ANY Windows version of Word would handle those issues. 2. Shortcuts are different from those in Word. Word's Control-W becomes Rough Draft's Control-Q. Not a major problem, you say? Perhaps, but if you have to stop and think which word processor you are using, you can lose your train of thought. That's a major problem for a writer. I'd recommend it for a beginning writer who might be intimidated by Word. However, as he becomes more proficient and wants to use Word's features, he'll have the problems of switching to Word's shortcuts. David Grossman >From: "Support-OrpheusComputing.com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Regarding "RoughDraft" you mentioned......FYI, unfortunately there's an issue > with it. ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
