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From: p554mve@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: When will new WordPerfect be available?
Message-ID: <1445@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
Date: 18 Jan 91 23:41:28 GMT
References: <1991Jan15.192859.1@ccvax.iastate.edu>
Reply-To: p554mve@mpirbn.UUCP (Michael van Elst)
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie, Bonn
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In article <1991Jan15.192859.1@ccvax.iastate.edu> taab5@ccvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) writes:
>   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.

I had to use Word on the Mac. It is a nice word processor and as
comfortable as I could wish. Nevertheless, it's additional features
are more or less half-hearted addons, especially the 'mathematical
typesetting language'. The best way to use graphics in Word is to
transfer the text into a DTP program since you cannot do anything with
the graphics (size or crop).

>   In short, I disgree with you.  Real men use Microsoft Word.
Real Men aren't afraid in the dark.

Regards,
-- 
Michael van Elst
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