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From: taab5@ccvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: When will new WordPerfect be available?
Message-ID: <1991Jan15.192859.1@ccvax.iastate.edu>
Date: 16 Jan 91 01:28:59 GMT
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In article <17621@cbmvax.commodore.com>, daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:

> What do you want a word processor for anyway?  Real Men write directly in
> DTP programs.  Or in markup languages, like TeX or Scribe.  No word processor
> is powerful enough.  

   Microsoft Word is, period.  Microsoft Word, in one package, includes 
ALL the tools that you would ever need to typeset a book.  Is that powerful
enough for you?

   MS Word is not really a word processor at all; it is a typesetting
package.  MS Word works like a word processor, but includes many features
-- including style sheets, key glossaries, templates, ability to 
incorporate PostScript in documents, a simple programming langauge
within mail-marge, and a TeX-like mathematical typesetting language --
that are usually only found in dedicated typesetting packages such 
as TeX.  In addition, it has features like a thesaruus and spelling
checker that are found in word processors.  To polish everything off,
it has text and graphic layout features usually only found in DTP
programs.

   In short, I disgree with you.  Real men use Microsoft Word.

> -- 
> Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests"
>    {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh      PLINK: hazy     BIX: hazy
> 	"Don't worry, 'bout a thing. 'Cause every little thing, 
> 	 gonna be alright"		-Bob Marley


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