Atari XL manual Introduction, Overview of the Last Word

The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual

1 INTRODUCTION

1.1 OVERVIEW OF THE LAST WORD

Welcome to THE LAST WORD, the brand new 80 column word processor for Atari XL/XE computers, and one of the most powerful text editors ever written for the 8-bit Atari. The Last Word (LW) combines many of the innovative features found in public domain text editors like TextPro with capabilities of established commercial packages such as AtariWriter Plus and The First XLEnt Word Processor. This means LW offers:

Full 80 column editing on-screen (switchable to 40 columns at any time)

Horizontally scrolling editing window of up to 240 columns

Editing of up 10 files simultaneously on a memory expanded machines

Sophisticated keyboard macro language

80 column print preview

Versatile cut and paste features

Search and replace, including reverse search

High speed editing, even at the top of large files

Comprehensive on-line help system

Feature-packed file selector/file management menu with up to 80 filenames in a scrolling window and support for SpartaDOS X directories with time/date stamps

Support for SpartaDOS X, MyDOS, DOS 2.5 and many DOS 2 derivatives

User-definable tab ruler

Customizable, plain-text printer drivers

Plain-text configuration files

Completely redefinable keyboard layout

All international characters visible on the screen

Comprehensive print formatting commands

Automatic heading levels

Indents, hyphenation, and much more...

First written in 1999 and completely revamped ten years later to use an 80 column display, LW is one of the few word processors to be written for the Atari XL/XE in the last twenty years.

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