Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!udel!princeton!njin!limonce From: limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications Subject: Re: When will new WordPerfect be available? Message-ID: Date: 16 Jan 91 18:06:22 GMT References: <1991Jan14.002805.1@ccvax.iastate.edu> <1991Jan14.073918.27523@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1991Jan15.202005.4403@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Organization: Drew University/NJIN Lines: 36 In article <1991Jan15.202005.4403@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> rjc@geech.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes: > >I think 700 pages is an appropriate size for such a manual, which > >probably does not cover the complete functionality of Word or WP. But > >it's long enough to include most everything you could want to do > >without scaring people away from itself. Remember that this is the > >*reference* manual we're talking about, not the *user* manual. > > Thats larger than most programming manuals i've seen. If it has > that many functions, why not learn TeX? TeX can do more, and you get to use > your favorite text editor! Why not learn TeX? In two words: "My Mother". You see, I know and use TeX but there is no way I could ever teach my mother TeX. I could spend days writing macros for her or I could set her up with LaTeX and still she wouldn't be able to use it. Think about it. Disclaimer: Maybe your mother is Grace Hopper, but I was quite impressed that my mother could understand the concept of different ON/OFF switches for the computer *and* the monitor. Personally I use them all. My Amiga has AmigaTeX and AmigaWordPerfect. My Zenith PC has WordPerfect 5.1 (I started with 4.1 and upgraded to 5.0 then to 5.1). My other PC (A Leading Edge XT, the one that my mother uses) has WordPerfect 5.1 (upgraded from 5.0). (Yes, I have separately purchased copies of all those WordPerfects). I decide which to use based on my location and what kind of document I'm going to produce. Tom -- tlimonce@drew.edu Tom Limoncelli "Flash! Flash! I love you! tlimonce@drew.bitnet +1 201 408 5389 ...but we only have fourteen tlimonce@drew.uucp limonce@pilot.njin.net hours to save the earth!"