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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I have no doubt about that. Nobody likes to start all over. 
I'm just questioning what sounded like (to me) some people saying that there's some magic stuff that Wordstar can do that modern software just can't (as easily/efficiently anyway). Maybe I'm wrong. |
I must be the last human on planet MR that remembers that you can run almost everything in Word
from the keyboard. Seriously, just because people adopted using the mouse doesn't mean that it's the House of Mouse. It just means, some people like typing over mousing, and vice-versa.
(For those with memories that have faded o'er the years of time:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/wo...70109.aspx#BM5 . Still works.)
And, BTW: Word outputs perfectly nice RTF that plays well with others.
I know some other authors that won't budge off of Wordstar. Myself, I moved on years ago, and had trouble letting go of Wordperfect, but...jeeze, people. May I ask why any of us gives two figs what the hell any author USES? What's next, caring about what type of skivvies he's buying and wearing?
And I want to
XYWriter. Most under-appreciated "writer's rpogram" in existence. Loses out all the time to Scrivener's "fancy" features (like being able to drag-and-drop chapters. Ohhhh, big whoop, you mean, JUST LIKE IN WORD for the last I-don't-know-how-many-versions?), which is grossly unfair. It's not fancy, but there's a boatload of power under that unassuming little exterior. Worth a look, and worth a donation. FAR better than most of those with colored backgrounds, saved MUSIC, galleries...works a treat, and exports beautifully clean RTF for interoperability.
Hitch