We’re in the dog days of the sunshine season when nothing sells, and special promotions to keep the tills languidly bleeping are bursting out all over – not least in San Rafael, California, where MicroPro International Corp has announced that specially marked copies of WordStar 2000 Plus sold through retail stores until August 31 will include the Laser Maximizer Pack and Grammatik II: the first consists of Inset, a memory-resident utility used to combine graphics and text during printing, developed by American Programmers Guild of Danbury, Connecticut, the ConoFonts Manager and a commercial script font, both from Conographic Corp of Irvine, California, while Grammatik II is one of those dreaded style checkers, this one from Reference Software Inc of San Francisco.