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From: philip@yunexus.yorku.ca (Phil McDunnough)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Common NeXT misconceptions
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Date: 8 Nov 90 05:16:46 GMT
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In article <8bBvfOW00Uh780kD45@andrew.cmu.edu> ls1i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Leonard John Schultz) writes:
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>First of all, I use Framemaker on the Mac and it is not very hard to
>learn.  And once you learn it, you can produce profession quality
>documents on no time.  Hell, I crank out technical reports with no
>concern for formatting because it is so easy with Framemaker.

>And Framemaker simply has the BEST equation typesetter available, in
>quality of the output and ease of creation (easier than expressionist)!

I have both Mac's and a NeXT cube and I have used Framemaker2.1 on both
computers. Framemaker, in my opinion, is not suitable for mathematical
word processing. On the PC there are several WYSIWYG math wp'ing programs
and there will very soon be a great one on the Mac.

Equation editors are just not the answer to mathematical typing. There is
the issue of editing and then the problems involved with in-line equations.
FrameMaker does not deal with in-line equations or something as simple as
" sigma sub i" within a line very easily.

The NeXT needs a mathematical word processor such as the one about to appear
on the Mac or even EXP. In the meantime we could live with an editor, or
TeX or troff. I still really like the NeXT, but technical typing is something
that needs to be addressed. On the other hand it took over 6 years for the Mac
to do it.

Philip McDunnough
University of Toronto->philip@utstat.toronto.edu
[my opinions]