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June 1991 


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Flv* years to the month irfier Protext version 1 was 
launched Arnor are pleased to present version 5, on enormous leap 
forward in both ease of use end performance. 

Pretext 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 tarried out with either the mouse or the keyboard. Pretext really does give 
you the best of both worlds. 

Pretext 5.0 handles printer foots flexibly and accurately. You can make full use 
of any number of proportional printer fonts, mix them freely within any tine, 
centre them in headers, use automatically formatted footnotes. And Pretext 
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. 

Pretext 5.0 is still the faslesl word processor around. Even though we have 
made all these major improvements we have token great core to ensure that 
text editing is ns fcsl as ever. The menus work smoothly and quickly even 
with high resolution displays. But of course, you can use Pretext's efficient set 
of commands and keys just as before and 5.0 remains compatible with oil 
earlier versions from 1 .0 onwards. 

Pretext 5,0 is a worthy successor to version 4, which was described as "the 
best word processor al any price", "the besl lext processor on the Amiga" 
and "the most powerful ward processor on the Atari SF (AUI, SI/ Amiga 
Formal, ST User). 

Pretext 5.0 heralds a new era of multi lingual European software, in time far 
1992 and the opening up of Eastern Europe, Pretext may be used in at least 

27 different languages and has 10 m 

different notional keyboard layouts 
built in (plus the capability to define * 


The Features 




j New fast £ easy ta use poll down 
menu system witti dialogue boxes and 
alerts; fib selector; moose dragging to set^ 
blocks. Menus complement existing 
commands and keyboard shortcuts, do 
nol replace them. Menus may be used 
with mouse or keyboard. Amiga version 
fallows Intuition guidelines. 

> Enhanced prinllng capabilities supports multiple proportional fonts; mixing of 
different font sizes on the same tine; 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. 

Jr Multiple file editing - up lo 36 files may be open; spirt screen editiing- 

,V Graphics mode support on PC allows use in virtually any text or graphics mode 
including 1 32 column or 75 line VGA modes; user defined characters and on-screen 
bald, holies and underlining now on all versions; use of 13 different accents an my 
di trader. 

/, Language support Includes Albanian, Bosque, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, 
Esperanto, Estonian, Flemish, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latin, 
Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Rumanian, Serhacroation, Slovak, Spanish, 
Slovene, Swedish, Welsh. (Note: some printers do nal support oil languages]. 

Jr Index and contents generation. Indexer lakes marked words or phrases; contents 
entries automatically taken from titles wrapped in control codes; many options far style 
of contents output. 

Jr Spelling checker features completely new 1 1 8,000+ word Collins dictionary with very 
fast phonetic lookup. Anagrams and find word pattern. Foreign language dictionaries 
{German, Swedish available now, others ta fallow). 

JV Many other enhancements including mufti-line footnotes and endnotes: automcitk 
timed save; odd column or raw of figures; indent tabs; find word at cursor; 40 column 
made support; sentence operations; inter- paragraph space; much improved expression 
evaluator; self incrementing variables; Raman numerals; rvewspaper-styli column 
â–  printing; fie sorting utility with special options far names and addresses; revised manual 
plus new tutorial guide. 

Jr And don't forget Pretext stiff 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 screen 
help; lime and date; typewriter made; line drawing: disc utilities. 


PrQlexl 5,0 rosy be purchased bom any good computer shop or directly from Arnor. Upgrades from earlier versions 
are only available from Arnor and the original discs should he returned with your order, 


PC 

Amiga 

ST/TT 

Archimedes 

ii ms 

£14995 

£149,95 

£149.95 

m 

m 

£60 

N/A 

E75 

£75 

£75 

H/A 

£99.95 

£99.95 

£99.95 

N/A 

£79.95 

£79.95 

£79.95 

due 1991 Q1 


Protaxl 5.0 requires at least 64QK of memory on all machines 
Protect 4.2 requires of least 51 ?K of memory on oil machines 
Prodata requires 1 HB of memory on ihe Amiga 


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Treasure Island: 

Pit your wits against some cun 
ning problems in this superb demo of 
Hat Rack Adventure Generator 

Musical madness!: We've gone bonkers! Not only have we 
packed TWO great tunes Into this month's Tune-of-the -Month, 
weVe also included some of the best samples you'll hear on any disk 

JMenu: Now you too can produce professional menus from a 
script file, JMenu does It all with ease and simplicity 

RmageED and PaSteGadgets: Use this excellent combi- 
nation of utilities for complete control over your system gadgets. 
Ideal for programmer! 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 tan get to that electronic 
filofaxt 

ColourKwik: Capture the coolest colours for your Workbench 
and save them to disk with ColourKwik. I 
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What's new 

If It's happening. Ft's here. Six pages packed 
with the latest news. Including location reports .. 


Back to the future 

After Amiga Computing 1 3rd bi rthday party q 

Eddie McKendrFck gen nostalgic ,30 


Public Domain 

Our regular guide to the best In free software. 
Paul Austin sorts out the best from the rest 


Beginner's guide: CLI 

Confused by the Amiga s Command Line? q — 

Let Stevie Kennedy lead the way... S3 


Write like a pro 

Stevie Kennedy takes a look at the latest 
version of the Pro write word processor...... 

The hard stuff 

Our Technical Editor gets knee-deep in the 
latest Amiga hardware offerings., 


Gallery 

Proudly presenting a two page showcase 
of the very best Amiga art........ 


Going for Gould 

Chairman of Commodore, Irving Could has 
quite a bit to say. Eton Maple listens in 


The magic of MED 

Paul Austin takes a look at the built-in sample 
editor sported by our old friend MED 3 .. 


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