Volkswriter Inc of Monterey, California is shipping Volkswriter 4: it is the mid-range product in Volkswriters’ line of word processing software, and the new release offers a number of features including integration of Reference Software’s Grammatik IV, 310,000-word thesaurus, 170,000-word spelling checker, footnotes, endnotes, page preview, macros and auto-recognition for five common file formats; optional add-ons include multilingual thesauruses and dictionaries for spelling and auto-hyphenation, specialised dictionaries, local area network installation and Volkswriters’ file conversion package; Volkswriter 4, release 2.0 costs $249, and release 1.02 users can upgrade for $50.
