Lightway Text X

LightWayText (Shareware price US$25) is a powerful Text Editor having lots of nice features ! With LightWayText, you have all the power you expect from a full-featured word processing program - writing, editing, printing, and saving the text document in other formats including Kanji/PICT/JPEG. We have changed the idea of a 'Writer's Workshop' into a reality. We are glad if it lets you recall 'Macintosh mind of the early days' - The original Mac's concept was to keep it pure and simple and this we have done with LightWayText. We sincerely hope LightWayText will serve you well, being a good friend for your Mac... In Japan, LightWayText is a popular text editor. In LightWayText 4, we included all the Japanese and English word processor functions, because so many of you asked for this. Editing operations are intuitive. There are many ways to change the appearance of your document; besides styles, there are decoration lines, the ability to change all paragraph indents or margins, to paste in PICT or JPEG images, and to create spreadsheet-like tables. LightWayText can also provide many different layouts. Especially unusual is the Vertical Writing format of 'Tategaki' as in Japanese books, the basic Paper of Japanese Manuscript paper 'Genkou-Yousi'. With a variety of Custom papers including Notepaper and Greeting card, you can start your original pages in your Westerners's style easily, also let LightWayText create back-up files automatically. In other words, as you would expect from a 'Writer's Workshop', much of your editing can be left entirely to LightWayText. In addition, LightWayText provides many special menus and macro-functions to stimulate the creative mind of a professional. You will increase your efficiency with customized menus and keyboard commands. You can also use a spelling checker or a translation program as if it were a built-in function. LightWayText even allows you to complex search with the 'Regular Expression' or the 'SEd script' in addition to the normal expression's search. Besides, there are other useful little goodies to play with, including a scheduler function for your day-to-day time management. You will find that LightWayText is widely used, from programming to the writing of various documents, in any language not only English and Japanese. - LightWayText is aiming to be the No1-shareware program, loved around the world ! We are pleased if you Westerners also find LightWayText useful...