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The Features

Five years to the month after Protext version 1 was

launched Arnor ore pleased to present version 5, an enormous leap

forward in both ease of use and performance.

Protext 5.0 introduces a completely integrated system of pull down menus

and dialogue boxes. The menus ore among the many operations that may now

be carried out with either the mouse or the keyboard. Protext really does give

you the best of both worlds.

Protext 5.0 handles printer fonts ﬂexibly and accurately. You can make full use

of any number of proportional printer fonts, mix them freely within any line,

centre them in headers, use automatically formatted footnotes. And Protext

correctly formats your text as you type it, no matter how many font changes

you use, showing you line and page breaks exactly as they will be printed.

Protext 5.0 is still the fastest word processor around. Even though we hove

mode all these major improvements we have token great care to ensure that

text editing is as fast as ever. The menus work smoothly and quickly even

with high resolution displays. But of course, you can use Protext's efﬁcient set

of commands and keys just as before and 5.0 remains compatible with all

earlier versions from 1.0 onwards.

Protext 5.0 is a worthy successor to version 4, which was described as "the

best word processor at any price", "the best text processor on the Amiga"

and "the most powerful word processor on the Atari ST" (AU!, ST/Amiga

Format, ST User).

Protext 5.0 heralds a new era of multi-lingual European software, in time for

1992 and the opening up of Eastern Europe. Protext may be used in at least

27 different languages and has 10

different national keyboard layouts

built in (plus the capability to deﬁne

your own symbols and

keyboard layouts).

New fast it easy to use pull down

menu system with dialogue boxes ond

alerts; ﬁle sector; mouse dragging to set

blocks. Menus complement existing

commands and keyboard shortcuts, do

not replace them. Menus may be used

with mouse or keyboard. Amigo version

follows Intuition guidelines.

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:c Enhanced printing capabilities supports multiple proportional fonts; mixing of

different font sizes on the some line; proportional formatting whilst editing; side

margin, headers and footers independent of main text font. labs, decimal tabs and

centre tabs. Extensive range of printer drivers supplied_

..sc Multiple ﬁle editing - up ta 36 ﬁles may be open; split screen editing.

A Graphics mode support on PC allows use in virtually any text or graphics mode

including 132 column or 15 line VGA modes; user deﬁned characters and on-screen

bold, italics and underlining now on all versions; use of 13 different accents on any

character.

Language support includes Albanian, Basque, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English.

Esperanto, Estonian, Flemish, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, balm,

Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Rumanian, Serbocroation, Slovak. Spanish,

Slovene, Swedish, Welsh. (Note: some printers do not support all languages).

...‘t Index und contents generation. Indexer takes marked words or phrases; contents

entries automatically token from titles wrapped in control codes; many options for style

of contents output.

A Spelling checker features completely new 110,000+ word Collins dictionary with very

fast phonetic lookup. Anogroms and ﬁnd word pattern. Foreign language dictionaries

(German, Swedish available now, others to follow).

Many other enhancements including multi-line footnotes and endnotes: automatic

timed save; odd column or row of ﬁgures; indent tabs; ﬁnd word at cursor; 40 column

mode support; sentence operations, inter- paragraph spore, much improved expression

evaluator; sell incrementing variables; Roman numerals; newspaper-style column

- printing; ﬁle sorting utility with sped& options for names and addresses; revised manual

plus new tutorial guide_

:c And don't forget Protext still includes background printing: box manipulation;

macro recording; exec ﬁles; headers and footers; ﬁnd and replace; mail merging;

undelete; ﬁle conversion utility; conﬁguration program; auto reformatting: on green

help; lime and date; typewriter mode; line drawing; disc utilities.

Prices

Protext 5.0 may he purchased from any good computer shop or directly from Amor. Upgrades from earlier versions

ore only available from Amor and the original discs should be returned with your order.

Archimedes

ST/TI

Amiga

49.95

ti 49.95

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049.95

Protext 5.0

N/A

£60

£75

E40

E15

£60

£75

Upgrade from v4.2

from earlier versions

09.95

£99.95

99.95

N/A

Protext 4.2

due 1991 01

c19.95

E79.95

E19,95

Prodota 1.1

Notes:

Protect 5.0 requires at least 640K of memory on all machines

?rotext 1.2 requires at least 511K of memory on all machines

Punkt° requires 1MB of memory on the Amiga

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Mus ic al madness!: We've gone bonkers! Not only have we

packed TWO great tunes into this months Tune-of-the-Month,

we'v e also included some of the best samples you'll hear on any disk

script ﬁle. 'Menu does It all with ease and simplicity

ImageED and PasteGad9ets: Use this excellent combi-

nation of utilities for complete control over your system gadgets.

Ideal for programmers and those with the urge to customise

Encrypt: Protect sensitive ﬁles from prying eyes with this handy

utility. Make sure you're the only one who can get to that electronic

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Colourlt wik : Capture the coolest colours for your Workbench

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WHO'S WHO

MANAGING EIXTOR Derek Wain

PUBOSHER Pited Wiliarrs

FEATURES EDITOR Eke MaKenand

DEPUTY FEATURES EDITOR: Paul Austin

TECHNICAL EDITOR: Sim Renck/

ART EDITOR Mae Salley

CONTAI N/ TORS Ascii Halbotn, Doc

Marc ami Stanger, Pdiel Hialman, Aft Walter, Ashley

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REGULARS

What's new

If its happening, it's here. Six pages packed

with the latest news, including location reports

FEATURES

Back to the future

After Amiga Computing's 3rd birthday party

Eddie McKendrick gets nostalgic

Public Domain

Our regular guide to the best In free software.

Paul Austin sorts out the best from the rest

Write like a pro

Stevie Kennedy takes a look at the latest

version of the Prowrite word processor

The hard stuff

Our Technical Editor gets knee-deep in the

latest Amiga hardware offerings

Beginner's guide: CU

Confused by the Amiga's Command Line?

Let Stevie Kennedy lead the way

Gallery

Proudly presenting a two page showcase

Going for Gould

Chairman of Commodore, Irving Gould has

qui te a bit to say. Don Maple listens in

of the very best Amiga art

ACAS

The Amigo Computing Advice Service is

always at hand with tech help

The magic of MED

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Intensive care

What do you do if your Amiga's heart stops

beati ng? Consult our silicon surgeon

Ami ga Computing team wind down

THE GAME ZONE

Expand and deliver

Jason Holborn continues his quest to

expand your Amiga to bursting point

The section of Amigo Computing that takes having

fun seriously! Previews, charts and tips not to mention

reviews of BRAT, BARDS TALE III, A110 TANK KILLER,

EYE OF THE BEHOLDER, WARLOCK, PGA TOUR GOLF

and SUPERCARS II. Get your joystick

ready for action!

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