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Word power
With Protext Amor sets out with the intention of improving any CPC word processor available to date and it has done an extraordinarily good job of it The only professional level competition comes from Tasword or CP/M programs. The disc version of Tasword has a super mail merge facility, a spell checker, Support from character redesigner programs for Epson and Amstrad printers and has also been released in a new version that uses the 6128's extra memory. None of these extras are yet available for Protext but they have been promised and in almost every other way there is a tangible increase in power under Protext. One of the noticeable points is speed - paragraph reformatting for example is almost instantaneous. Secondly almost every command is flexible - you can save and print blocks of text, merge text at the cursor position, find and replace can be case independent or specific, global or local, backwords or forwards, words only or strings within words. Printer control commands such as line spacing or page length can be embedded in the text, as well as text formatting rulers, comment lines, messages that suspend printing until a key is pressed (for prompting a daisy wheel change for example), soft hyphens (they disappear if the word doesn't cross a line break) the list goes on. I can't emphasise how good it is and the only feature that can be criticised is that if you have a line length approaching 80 cols it overwrites this by several characters before formatting it on to the next line. The Rom version allows you 40K of free text file space (even on the 6128) and frees you from having to waste disc space with working copies of the program. It is available in cartridge form for £10.00 extra or as a chip for insertion in any Amstrad compatible Rom board. Don't miss it - it is superb! Tony Kendle, , Popular Computing Weekly |
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