Protext

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For the LaTeX Integrated Development Environment software, see ProTeXt.

Protext was a British word processing program, developed by Arnor Ltd, of Peterborough in the decade following 1985. Originally written for the Amstrad CPC464, it was later sold for the Amstrad PCW series of word processors, the Atari ST, the Acorn Archimedes, the Commodore Amiga and PC.

After the closure of the firm in 1995, the program was taken over by a group of enthusiasts and relaunched with a new version for the PC. A companion database program Prodata is also sold.

Protext features all the usual word-processing features, such as a dictionary and thesaurus, autocorrection, good printer support, etc, etc, and was very popular in Britain before the days of Microsoft Windows.