Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!nrl-cmf!ames!amdcad!sun!basselope!shiffman From: shiffman%basselope@Sun.COM (Hank Shiffman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: WriteNow 2.0 Is Here Message-ID: <79417@sun.uucp> Date: 30 Nov 88 05:43:28 GMT Sender: news@sun.uucp Reply-To: shiffman@sun.UUCP (Hank Shiffman) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 19 Just received my update today. After trying it out for a few minutes I have to say that I'm impressed. The translator is now built in and is extensible with autoloaded filter programs. It supports conversion to and from straight text, MacWrite and Microsoft's RTF format. Translation appears to be pretty fast. Certainly much faster than the one included with 1.0. I like the new features. Most everything seems well thought out. About the only thing I particularly miss is the ability to specify spacing around paragraphs. It's a pain to have to insert empty paragraphs and then adjust their line spacing. -- Hank Shiffman (415) 336-4658 AI Product Marketing Technical Specialist ...!sun!shiffman Sun Microsystems, Inc. shiffman@Sun.com Zippy sez: We are now enjoying total mutual interaction in an imaginary hot tub...