My wife's machine is an eMac 1GHz, although the thesis was begun on an iMac CRT 500MHz. The progression .wn4-.rtf-.doc-.pdf was intended not to lose formatting, and it did not. Some minor fiddling in Word (Office 2004) was needed to re-settle page size, section breaks for chapter headings and some other trivia, but WriteNow's ability to export in .rtf made it safe enough for 2vv and 400+ pages. Even the footnotes made the transition without hiccup, as did such things as reduced-measure double-indent quotation paragraphs, glossarized terms and more.
As for why we continue with WN? There has been no incentive to use anything else domestically—and that has included formal minutes of organization meetings, extended tabulations, an in-house newsletter, all correspondence, ad inf.—because it just works on every one of the 35-odd working Macs in the house, and its documents readily pass through the LAN when that is needed. Its features are adequate, and don't impede as MS's feachers do. It transfers readily to Word when I need to do so for those of my clients (ca 103%) who are trapped in the toils of MS.
Because WN was written in machine language I can understand its antipathy towards (and from) Intel Macs. Fortunately, that isn't yet a problem for us. Our principal printer is a USB hp 930C (still), which has no difficulty with either OS X (10.2.8 to 10.4.10), Classic Mode or Beige boxes with PCI USB cards. So useful is it that I have no pressing need to set up the 'resting' StyleWriters (1200, 4500) or LaserWriters (PLW300, 16/600PS).
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As for why we continue with WN? There has been no incentive to use anything else domestically—and that has included formal minutes of organization meetings, extended tabulations, an in-house newsletter, all correspondence, ad inf.—because it just works on every one of the 35-odd working Macs in the house, and its documents readily pass through the LAN when that is needed. Its features are adequate, and don't impede as MS's feachers do. It transfers readily to Word when I need to do so for those of my clients (ca 103%) who are trapped in the toils of MS.
Because WN was written in machine language I can understand its antipathy towards (and from) Intel Macs. Fortunately, that isn't yet a problem for us. Our principal printer is a USB hp 930C (still), which has no difficulty with either OS X (10.2.8 to 10.4.10), Classic Mode or Beige boxes with PCI USB cards. So useful is it that I have no pressing need to set up the 'resting' StyleWriters (1200, 4500) or LaserWriters (PLW300, 16/600PS).
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