Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!cunixb.cc.columbia.edu!es1 From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) Subject: Re: Amiga in the Workforce Message-ID: <1991Jun1.194711.7811@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Sender: usenet@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (The Network News) Nntp-Posting-Host: cunixb.cc.columbia.edu Reply-To: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) Organization: Columbia University References: <2471@cluster.cs.su.oz.au> <13078@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Date: Sat, 1 Jun 1991 19:47:11 GMT In article <13078@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> aru@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Sri-Man) writes: >In article arctngnt@amiganet.chi.il.us (Bowie J Poag) writes: >>many control options as does Wordperfect, and its FREE, as opposed to shelling >>out $500 for WP 5.0...Idiots. > >What programs? What do you mean more control options than WP...give me some >evidence of it. The only WP that I know that even comes close to WP is >Excellence. You tell me.. :-) > I'm HOPING he is referring to TeX, which comes far closer than any commercial Amiga Word Processor, but then again, it isn't a word processor. It is almost its own concept. It is more like writing your document in PostScript. You have enormous flexibility, and some macros make your life somewhat easier. But, you have to write your document is some generic text editor and send it to the TeX program to "run" it. There are some areas where a word processor can make your life easier that TeX can't simply because it isn't running, a text editor is. It'll be interesting to see an editor designed around TeX, written to write TeX "code" for you. Of course, DisplayTeX would be ... > Sri > aru@mentor.cc.purdue.edu Now the world has gone to bed, Now I lay me down to sleep, Darkness won't engulf my head, Try to count electric sheep, I can see by infrared, Sweet dream wishes you can keep, How I hate the night. How I hate the night. -- Marvin