Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!veritas!amdcad!brahms!indra From: indra@brahms.amd.com (Indra Singhal) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: How good a word processor is Ventura Publisher? Message-ID: <1991Jan31.203842.23847@amd.com> Date: 31 Jan 91 20:38:42 GMT References: <11850001@hpfcbig.SDE.HP.COM> <1991Jan30.060314.23809@cbnewsl.att.com> Sender: usenet@amd.com (NNTP Posting) Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Lines: 26 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 Publisher should never be confused with word processing programs. VP is a page layout, desk top publishing program. For instance, there is no spelling check, no thesaurus, no search & replace. VP should be used with a word processing program to generate and manipulate raw text, and a separate graphics program to manipulate and edit graphics. When you need to put it all together use VP to put the publication together. It does Table of contents and both forward and backward references, indexes and the like. Just my thoughts... often people expect VP to be a wproc. and are disappointed. -- iNDRA | indra@amd.com or {ames apple uunet}!amd!indra | (Indra Singhal) (408) 749-5445; Advanced Micro Devices | MS 167; Box 3453; 901, Thompson Pl., Sunnyvale, CA 94088