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WordSmith 2.0

Discuss WordSmith 2.0 here

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<B>Marcus Adolfsson</B>
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Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Greenville, SC
Posts: 172

Great news about being able to convert any TrueType font!

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Registered: Oct 1999
Location: Baltimore MD, USA
Posts: 717

Oh, man! Where do I sign?
The older version of WordSmith was a polished product at a nice price. This new one is just too spiffy for words. I want it NOW!

Registered: Nov 2000
Location: New York City
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Just how big is 2.0 though? At 400K+, 1.x is already quite hefty. Not that I'm complaining...

Registered: May 2000
Location: St. Paul, MN
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the latest beta of Wordsmith that I have is 450 KB sorry guys. plus you have to have a couple of fonts for FineType, and that adds some.

But still. I think that it's worth it. IMHO they have kept the size down very nicely - your tryign to put MSWord(the blaoted ugly thing) onto a Visor, in a small package - of course it's going to be somewhat big.

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-miradu

Registered: Dec 1999
Location: Connecticut USA
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Tabs... what about tabs? I need tabs... Are we still waiting for tabs?

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Registered: May 2000
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nope! It's unbeliveable - I didn't realise how nice it is to press TAB on the stowaway!

BlueNomad has like everythign covered..

Mark - If you rad the press release you would know this

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-miradu

Registered: Feb 2001
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Font schmont. I need bullets. Thank god for the footnotes, tho.

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Registered: May 2000
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I jsut got the July 10th beta - they have bullets now

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-miradu

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Originally posted by miradu2000
I jsut got the July 10th beta - they have bullets now

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...oh baby...
[Tony]
Blue Nomad: They'rrrre GREAT!
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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: St. Louis
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This is a killer program, too bad to make the most of it I need an n710c... For now I'll just stick with my PocketWord/Cligrapher setup, the truth is that with the execption of screen size they are virtualy identical feature wise.

Related to this article: It's very nicely edited, don't you think?

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Very nice Sam

Let me publicly thank my editors right now - Sam, Mom and Marcus.

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-miradu

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Miradu, since this is a beta test, didn't you have to sign a NDA? (Non-disclosure agreement)

Registered: May 2000
Location: St. Paul, MN
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Well.. I should of.. and from the e-mails I got

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CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY

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but I got premission form Blue Nomad to write about it for Visorcentral.. etc.. I got to say whateverI wanted! (well DUH!)

Other beta testers are under an NDA. I'm on a half NDA. I guess now that the articles done I shouldn't be talkign about it as much, but I will answer the questions that come up.

BTW, it's very good

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Registered: Apr 2000
Location: Seattle, WA
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In my experience, companies tend not to complain too much if you violate their NDA to say great things about their product.

Keep up the good work. I'm really counting on the new version to remove some of my Sony Clie envy. The one thing I would really want the new color Sonys for is to read e-books, and it sounds like that won't be as big an issue with the new version.

Before the Clie fans chime in, I know, I know, WS 2 will look even better on a Clie, but I'd be happy with just some improvement on my Prism.

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Originally posted by miradu2000
nope! It's unbeliveable - I didn't realise how nice it is to press TAB on the stowaway!

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You mean you can just press tab? TAB alone? No Fn? No Fn TAB? Is that so? If so, WOOHOO !

If not , then, why not?

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Registered: May 2000
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to do a tab on a stowaway, using wordsmith 2.0

press tab.

your done! isn't that wonderful?

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Location: Pullman, WA
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quote:

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Originally posted by miradu2000
to do a tab on a stowaway, using wordsmith 2.0

press tab.

your done! isn't that wonderful?

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Originally posted by icthus


It sure will be. Any idea when that might be?

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Location: Pullman, WA
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quote:

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Originally posted by miradu2000
to do a tab on a stowaway, using wordsmith 2.0

press tab.

your done! isn't that wonderful?

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