Editing Samna (section)

==Overview==
Samna had many strengths, but was regularly criticized in reviews over speed issues.  Even before GUI environments like [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], it pioneered treating the empty editing screen as a 'scratchpad', that is, a space that you could cursor into, placing a character or other entry anywhere at will on a printable page.  In WordPerfect and Word, and virtually all other editors of that period, territory beyond the last character entered did not exist. When the [[Hercules Graphics Card|Hercules graphics card]] became popular, Samna Word gained a Print Preview mode that was not editable, but showed font and format treatments.

When Windows was released, Samna introduced [[Amí|Ami]], a [[graphic]]s-based word processor, in 1988, which was the first Windows-based word processor on the market<ref>{{cite web
|url=https://forum.winworldpc.com/discussion/9448/request-samna-word-for-dos-any-version
|title=SAMNA Word for DOS}} "Samna Corp. is mostly known as the developer of Ami - the first commercial GUI word processor for MS Windows."</ref> and it supported [[WYSIWYG]] - What You See Is What You Get<ref>{{cite web
|title=Lotus Ami Pro for Windows
|url=http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/18775/Lotus-Ami-Pro-for-Windows}}</ref> (Microsoft Word for Windows did not debut until early 1989). The [[Windows 3.0]] versions were being shipped when Lotus acquired the company, and Ami Pro was folded into Lotus's product line, first becoming Lotus Ami Pro, and then later evolving into [[Lotus Word Pro]].  The signature extension of Ami Pro files, .sam, is a legacy of Samna.