Re: Media word processor question

2006-04-09 Thread Jerry Muelver
Tom, even with a poll, we'd still be left with the dual issues of specification and implementation. What I'm after is to emulate in Revolution what I've already done in Windows with WikiWriter (http://hytext.com/ww), only with slicker cross-platform features. The idea is fairly simple markup i

RE: Media word processor question

2006-04-09 Thread Lynn Fredricks
> Does this mean it is now possible to type Chinese in a field > without having the application crash with some of the most > common characters? > Is Devanagari no longer garbled? > > I would love to introduce my students to Revolution Media, > but living in Taiwan and working in a field in wh

Re: Media word processor question

2006-04-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
Friedrich F. Grohmann wrote: I am happy to see Revolution making steady progress, and one sentence on the home page in particular did not fail to raise my spirits wildly: Straight out of the box, Revolution Media provides the features of a word processor, a presentation tool, a movie player,

Re: Media word processor question

2006-04-09 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Jerry, I don't have a copy of Media so take this with a grain of salt, but I don't think that RRs idea of a word processor is the same as ours. I do not believe that anything in the capabilities present in 2.7 are different in Media and so that would mean there are no new abilities for th

Re: Media word processor question

2006-04-09 Thread Jerry Muelver
Robert Brenstein wrote: Does anyone who got Media can tell us if the list of features of a word processor include things like paragraph-level formatting and full justification? And numbered and unnumbered lists, graphics insertion with text flow-around, assignable text and paragraph styles.

Re: Media word processor question

2006-04-09 Thread Robert Brenstein
Straight out of the box, Revolution Media provides the features of a word processor, a presentation tool, a movie player, a calculator and many more standard applications. Does this mean it is now possible to type Chinese in a field without having the application crash with some of the most