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From: v105mahs@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Peter P Donohue)
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Subject: Re: How good a word processor is Ventura Publisher?
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Date: 30 Jan 91 15:52:31 GMT
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In article <1991Jan30.060314.23809@cbnewsl.att.com>, psrc@cbnewsl.att.com (Paul S. R. Chisholm) writes...
>We may have the opportunity (?) of getting a manual either in troff or
>Ventura Publisher(R) form.  I know how good vi/emacs + troff is; how
>about Ventura Publisher?  From what I've heard, it's a better word
>processor than most page layout ("desktop publishing") programs . . .
>but that may not be saying much.  No spelling checks?  How are the
>search and replace facilities?  Anything else come to mind?

    Ventura is meant to be a page layout program.  As such, it expects that 
you have written the text in a word processor and imported it into the program.
It has basic text editing commands, but is definitely not a word processor.
If you have to do any major text editing, it is usually easiest to go back
to the original word processed files.
    There are programs that you can add, such as VP to the Max by Aristocad,
that add a spell checker and thesaurus to the program.  This is something that
I think should have been originally included with VP.  Even with this add-in,
you still wouldn't want to do anything but the most minor text editing.
    Hope this was some help.

							Pete

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