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From: zrm@eddie.MIT.EDU (Zigurd R. Mednieks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: WP recommendations, was: FullWrite Professional?
Message-ID: <6937@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sun, 20-Sep-87 18:51:40 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 20 18:51:40 1987
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Reply-To: zrm@eddie.MIT.EDU (Zigurd R. Mednieks)
Organization: MIT, EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA
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Keywords: FullWrite Professional, Vaporware?

>
>I remember so ex-Apple guru commenting on this (don't remember who).
>He was upset that even Write Now (a product he otherwise thought was
>the ultimate Mac w.p. environment) had included a spelling checker.
>
>Comments?

Yeah, until Apple specifies a standard interface between word processors and
spell checkers, it is OK by me if word processors come with spell checking
included.

Speaking of word processors, which should I buy? I have used MS-Word
and mostly I hate it. I program the Macintosh for a living, and I
understand what Microsoft means when they say Word is an object-action
editor, but it still manages to behave in apperently irrational ways
and has irrational limitations. Tools should feel good, and Word does
not feel good. Word does, however, have spell checking and somewhat
automated (but not very convenient) indexing. These features are
essential for producing bussiness plans, documentation, etc.

A replacement for Word has to have all of the following attributes:
It has to feel good, like a well designed Macintosh application, it
has to have automated indexing, and it has to be able to print better
than word -- it has to do proper kerning. Anything out there have all
this?

-Zigurd