Home Computing Weekly


Wordsworth

Author: D.C.
Publisher: Ian Copestake
Machine: BBC Model B

 
Published in Home Computing Weekly #34

Word processing programs quickly turn a games machine into a powerful tool. This program is a very powerful utility with some very advanced features.

It has good clear documentation which needs reading carefully - in fact, I would advise you to read it at least twice before you start. The facilities described are complex, and work is needed to understand how to get the program to obey your wishes.

Among Wordsworth's outstanding features are the ability to print more than one copy of a text with a single command, allowing text input during printing, and the ease with which decimal numbers can be formatted and printer control codes inserted.

I didn't like the method of text amendment, which seemed long winded and error-prone, or the fact that I could not see the text formatted as it would be on the printed page (this is possible on the disc version, though).

Overall, though, this is a clever and complex program which will probably become indispensible over the long term for its users.

D.C.

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