[icon-users] New features in EasiWriter/TechWriter 8.7
- From: Martin Wuerthner <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: icon-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:19:38 +0200
The one thing new users (in particular those being used to Impression
and OvationPro) usually find most irritating about Easi/TechWriter is
the way styles are defined and edited, which is rather unintuitive
compared to the industry standard way of having a style editor. This
was confirmed by last year's survey in which the proposal of adding a
Style Editor ended up in second place (only beaten by Word2000 export,
which is a likely candidate for one of the next major releases).
I am delighted to announce that Easi/TechWriter 8.7 will finally come
with a Style Editor. A first preview can be seen at:
http://www.mw-software.com/files/StyleEditor1.jpg
(showing the main Style Editor dialogue and the Format
properties dialogue opened by clicking on "Format...")
http://www.mw-software.com/files/StyleEditor2.jpg
(showing the Text properties dialogue opened by clicking
on "Text...")
With the Style Editor, you can finally view and edit styles using a
standard dialogue based approach. No more worrying about selecting and
changing the right thing in the document and updating styles from
local changes!
In addition to the Style Editor, version 8.7 will finally fix one more
long-standing oddity by offering an option to limit the width of the
window to the width of the document (rather than using the width of
the entire screen). So, finally, you can click on the toggle size icon
without being annoyed by the window extending to cover the entire
screen. This change brings Easi/TechWriter more in step with standard
RISC OS behaviour.
The official release of the new version is planned for next week's
South East Show in Guildford (on Saturday the 20th). Details such as
upgrade prices will be announced in time.
Martin
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