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From: jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight)
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.text.desktop
Subject: Re: WordPerfect vs. Ventura
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Date: 25 Aug 89 22:38:16 GMT
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From article <1583@lzfme.att.com>, by jwi@lzfme.att.com (Jim Winer @ AT&T, Middletown, NJ):
>> Bob Armao writes:
>                                  WordPerfect has things like:
> 
> 	*	find and replace
> 	*	spell check
> 	*	auto-number paragraph
> 
> that are not in Ventura.

True.  I use a seperate spell checker on the text, Ventura will produce an
ASCII file that'll go through a spell checker without to much trouble.  I
tend to use WordStar in non-document mode, but any spell checker would do
the trick.

> In addition, when you "anchor" a figure in
> Ventura, it moves to the SAME POSITION on the page contining the
> text.

Not so.  In Ventura you can place a frame on a page or anchor it to text.
If anchored to text I think you can specify that the frame appears as close
to the anchor as possible or at the paragraph break.  This feature is very
well done and allows you to do almost anything you want.

> Ventura is ideal for newsletters, catalogs, magazines, and other
> items that are PAGE oriented.

Nope.  I use it for chapter oriented things.  Its great for long documents
where consistant styling is needed.  It's also great for all those who want to
do all the great things that a PostScript printer can do without learning
PostScript.

I've never used WordPerfect and I'm only 3/4's of the way through
"Ventura - The Complete Reference" which is a real eye opener for
a troff fanatic!  I haven't touched troff since I started reading it.
It's also a good example of how a camera ready Ventura document can look.
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