Full screen text formatters

[Werner Vogels]

    In august 1988 a new  group  of  students  will  attend  the
    courses  at  our  college. These students will do courses in
    office-automation and related subjects. It is  nessecary  to
    offer  them  a  full  screen  text  formatter.  We have been
    talking to several vendors about a W*rdstar  or  W*rdperfect
    style formatter. None of them could satisfy our needs.

    We are looking for a package that can fulfil the basic needs
    like    line-filling,   left-right   adjusting,   centering,
    boldface, underlining, page control,  headers  and  footers.
    This  all  must  be by the principle of What You See Is What
    You Get.

    We are running a collection of BSD 4.2  derivated  Operating
    Systems on different mini's and micro's.

    The rumour goes that a package  as  desired  by  us  is  not
    available  in an BSD environment. We do not believe this, so
    we ask for your help. Could  any  one  give  us  information
    about where we could find such a package.

    We are experienced users in [nt]roff and TeX, so don't flame
    us about not using these beautiful tools in combination with
    an adapted emacs.  Such a  system  is  not  suited  for  our
    purpose.

    Please reply by E-mail, I will summarise to the net.

    Werner Vogels

    College of Advanced Information Technology
    Wegastraat 60
    The Hague, Netherlands

    E-mail : werner at nikhefk!mcvax!...