WriteUp is a full-featured word processor that was designed exclusively for OPENSTEP and AppleOS. Special features include: full WYSIWYG display, text and graphics integration, multiple headers and footers, table importing, templates (style sheets), split views, and a unique page navigator for longer documents. WriteUp can import and export all common word processing and graphics formats.   WriteUp also provides an Application Programmer's Interface.
Download/Order/Support

Text Processing

• Fonts: multiple faces and sizes
• Attributes: bold, italic, superscript, subscript, subscript, single & double underline, word underline, redline, strikeout
• Alignment: left, center, right, full
• Tabs: left, right, center, decimal; optional dot-leaders; default tab spacing, flush right tab
• Line spacing: fixed or variable
• Paragraph Spacing: above, below, between
• Break protection: widows/orphans, keep together, keep with next
• Paragraph border attributes: lines and fills imported
• Typographic control: automatic pairwise kerning, ligatures, hanging punctuation, "Smart Quotes" substitution
• Hyphenation: automatic
• Color: drag-and-drop from standard color panel
• Bullets: create hanging bullets automatically without tabs
• Case change operations (lower, upper, capitalize)
• Special codes: current page, total pages, fixed and variable date/time
• Embedded graphics: resizable with baseline support
• Paragraph Styles: all standard attributes, plus "based on" and "followed by" styles; can be sparsely defined and locally overridden
• View and insertion of all available characters

User Interface

• Emacs keybindings
• Text Selection from mouse and keyboard
• Forward delete and transpose operations
• Full Intel keyboard support: e.g. Home key, Page Up key, Function keys
• User-configurable keymaps to emulate other word processors

Graphics Processing

• Graphic Styles (similar in concept to paragraph styles) save frequently used, named combinations of lines, fills, dashes, and arrows
• Drag-and-drop graphics files or paste from other applications
• Page-based graphics at fixed location
  • Automatic text runaround or overlay
  • Frame and fill color
  • Graphic layering
  • Precise scaling and rotation
  • User-specified name allows API access
• Embedded graphics in text
• Object Link (Paste-and-Link) support for live updating
• Image Filter service support
• Graphic Links Panel displays information about graphics that are included by reference

Document Processing

• Full WYSIWYG display, including headers, footers, and graphics
• Page navigator: thumbnail view for easy maneuvering through documents
• Multiple document views: different pages and/or zoom factors
• Margins: document and paragraph-specific
• Text Ruler: tab, margin, and indentation settings
• Units: points, picas, inches, metric
• Headers/Footers: fully variable throughout document (flow with text), can apply to all, odd, or even pages
• Process markup: adjusts document based on redline and strikeout marked text
• Zoom in/out: 10% to 1600%
• Automatic page numbering, Roman or Arabic style
• Multi-column support
• Manual page breaks
• Mail Merge facility: provides personalized document generation; data source can be file or pasteboard
• Auto-numbering for lists and outlines, up to ten levels

Document Management/Other

• Standard file handling: new, open, save, save as, revert to saved, etc.
• Default "New document" preference
• Template documents: load/save
• Import/export formats: ASCII, RTF, RTFD, Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, AmiPro, WriteNow, all kinds of graphics, most other popular word processors
• Multi-lingual spell checking and hyphenation
• Autosave interval
• Print and fax to any supported device
• Digital Librarian filter allows native documents to be indexed
• On-line help

Internationalization

• Dictionaries and hyphenation for numerous languages (call for details)
• French and German UI available
• All program messages in easily modified string tables
• User interface (nib) files available for editing
• User-selectable decimal align character