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From: phd@SPEECH1.CS.CMU.EDU (Paul Dietz)
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Subject: Re: Dissertation on a MAC vs UNIX
Keywords: bibliographies, index(es), table of contents,
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Date: 3 Apr 88 13:04:16 GMT
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In article <2328@uvacs.CS.VIRGINIA.EDU> hsd@uvacs.CS.VIRGINIA.EDU (Harry S. Delugach) writes:
>I am soon to begin the production of a large, technical document (namely
>my Ph.D. dissertation).
>
>Is there any Mac software that matches the functionality of *troff
>and family? Does anyone out there regularly use embedded citations
>which are gathered at the end of a document? How about footnotes? 
>Does it work for a large document (approx 200 double-spaced pages)?

I solicited the net for help with this problem some time ago, and am
currently in the process of writing THE document. Suggestions were
mainly between MS Word, and TeX. For cost and availability reasons,
I went with MS Word.

Things I like:
WYSIWYG editing
Multifinder let's me do diagrams, and paste back and forth quickly.
Automatic Table of Contents.
Index (though I haven't tried it yet.)

Things I don't like:
Equation processing is crude. Punts when equations get too long.
No support for figure or table numbers.
No bibliography support.

I'm surviving with it so far, but it's not exactly my "dream word
processor". Judging by the frequency of these querries, when, oh when
is somebody going to make a cheap, decent, technical word processor?????

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