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James Miller wrote:
>
> I ran across a piece of software that seemed of potential 
> interest to the BL project.  

Are you still using the Ted word processor?  Now that I've
settled on a browser and mail reader, I'm trying to decide
on a word processor.  For the last two days, I've been trying 
Ted, but it seems to be unfriendly in some respects.  For 
example, I hate the default font and can't find a way to make 
a permanent change.  It's a strange word processory, un-intuitive 
and ugly.  I'm surprised so many people like it.

I'm now having a look at pw (part of Siag Office).  It's friendly,
intuitive and surprisingly capable for a 292kb executable.  It's
also much prettier than Ted and has a nice zoom feature.  It does 
RTF, sub/super-scripts and headers/footnotes.  Has anybody else
tried it?  It's a slackware-type package that installs with
installpkg.

If pw doesn't work out, I might try AbiWord.  I've got an old copy 
of AbiWord, but it doesn't work on BL2 -- some problem with the
keyboard.  I should probably download a more recent copy to see 
if the problem is still there, but the download is so long (on my
33.6 dialup) that I'm going to be really annoyed if I find it has 
the same problem.

Cheers,
Steven