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From: mkn@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Hofer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Word 4.0/Expressionist alternatives
Message-ID: <3432@mace.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 27 Oct 89 18:50:47 GMT
Organization: Purdue University
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First let me thank all of the people who suggested
using the position command for placing graphics in
Word 4.0 -- it works great except...
If I have a page with 2 paragraphs which each fill 
half of the page and I insert a large (8" x 10")
graphic between the paragraphs which is positioned 
to be in the center of the page...I get the first 
page with the first paragraph, the second page 
with the graphic, and a third page with the second 
paragraph.  In other words the text does not flow
properly around the grahpic (IMHO).  I called
Microsoft and they said "...there's no way to do what 
you want to do..."  This brings me to my real question:


I am in general rather unsatisfied with the performance
of Microsoft Word/Expressionist for doing technical
word processing.  Is there a better way to create 
technical documents on the mac which incorporates WYSIWYG 
(at least to some degree) with a reasonable interface for
creating equations?  I also need to include graphics
in PostScript (created on Unix) and graphics created with
a PostScript drawing program (e.g. Freehand).

Please E-mail responses and I'll summarize.  Thanks --dch