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Subject:Universal Editor? From:"William J. Hartzer" <William -dot- Hartzer -at- EMC2-TAO -dot- FISC -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 9 Jan 1995 19:17:00 EST
Does anyone out there in Techwr-l'er land have experience using a Universal
Editor? i.e., some type of doc. system that will allow you to do the
following:
* Allow you to compose a document using the Universal Editor and "spit it
out," if you will, in any type of format (i.e., WordPerfect, ASCII, Script,
SGML, GML, Mac Write, etc.)
* Effectively deal with all Codepage 500 issues (i.e., deal with all
translation/language -- character issues)
* Be able to handle document version control/documentation effectively
* Be able to easily handle long technical documents
* Be able to capture screens
* Be able to add or create additional file formats as required (e.g., if
someone creates a new word processor called XYZ word processor, it will be
able to support it; or we can create the file format ourselvesto support it).
* Includes a spell checker
* Includes a grammar checker
* Includes an automatic translator (i.e, English to German, French, etc.)
These are a few of the features I'd like to find on a Universal Editor. I've
heard of a Universal Editor called XL18 (sp?), and am looking for additional
possibilities. I understand that they DO cost a lot of $...something like
$35,000, and a lot of companies nowadays can't afford it, but if you ARE using
something like this, could you let me know?
Thanks in advance,
Bill Hartzer, Technical Writer, Fischer International Systems Corporation
William -dot- Hartzer -at- emc2-tao -dot- fisc -dot- com
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