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From: kevinc@cs.AthabascaU.CA (Kevin Crocker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: World's best word processor
Summary: Word Processor WARS! YEA!
Message-ID: <950@auvax.AthabascaU.CA>
Date: 4 Jul 89 17:01:22 GMT
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In article <22925@genrad.UUCP>, slp@genrad.uucp (Stephen L. Peters) writes:
> As long as we're setting how you start italics as the mark of the
> "World's best word procesor," I might as well remark that if your
> processor has some form of macro, you can cut your keystrokes down
> immensely.

Stephen, after having watched a few of these word processor wars over
the last four years on usenet, I finally decided to enter the fray
myself.  What the hey, other people have opinions, so why can't I,
right!

Actually, my word processor environment is just short of being totally
crazy.  I use seven (7), yes count them, seven word processors in my
daily work.  Yes I do spend a lot of time converting text back and
forth but I bought a program that does this very nicely, thank you very
much.

I must, however, admit that my dominant word processor is Lotus
Manuscript.  Mostly because I do a lot of equation stuff and it works
very well.  I also do a lot of crude typesetting for a variety of
newsletters and such and it seems to provide very good copy very
quickly and easily.  I have been using most of these seven programs for
years so that my learning curve is very low, but I still find features
in all of them that I did not know about.

I have decided to add another editor to my arsenal, microemacs.  I
can't really figure out why I did not have this before, but then there
are a lot of things that I don't have.  ANYWAY,

let's keep these word processor wars going..... in fact, let's start
some good old editor wars  too.  For example, my programmers editor is
better than yours, nyah, nyah.

Oh, boy! what a day this has been.

Kevin
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