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From: kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr)
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Subject: Re: Word Processing.  Why the silence?
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Date: 8 Nov 88 15:23:13 GMT
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In article <1988Nov4.221606.20356@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> heath@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Todd Heatherton) writes:
>I read with interest the discussion that centered around the different
>properites of FullWrite, Word 3.0x and WordPerfect.  There appeared to
>be a fair amount of enthusiasm for many packages.  I've noticed that
>the most recent McUser chooses WriteNow 2.0 as the best word processor 
>(although, I would concede that the specific author chose WriteNow as
>the best package for themselves personally).  I have been using WriteNow
>because no-one has managed to convinve me that the other packages were
>worth the effort.  However, I would hope that others have chosen different
>word processors for their specific needs.  Why did discussion of word
>processors dry up?  Is there a consensus as to the 'Net users" preferred
>word processing package?  Which is best and why?  I would be interested
>in seeing more about word processors discussed on the net (and, of course, if
>others disagree this topic can dry up quite quickly!)
>-- 
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>
>heath@gpu.utcs.edu    or     psyc.utoronto.edu!heath
>No disclaimer since nobody really cares what I think
>
>************************************************************************

Well, you gave me the perfect forum for something I was going to post 
anyways. I still get PC Magazine and was astounded to learn the following
in an article about the newly released WordPerfect for the PC.

"As of Version 5.0 and its subsequent enhancement, which fixed some initial
bugs, WordPerfect is now the most powerful, configurable, and multitalented
word processing program ever to appear on any class of computer system.
And there are no gadgets to avoid: we've been offered instead a powerhouse
program that
     * imports graphics and handles fonts better than any other program
       of its type;"...etc.

The author goes on to describe this marvelous graphics handling that lets you
move, scale, rotate, and invert the graphic and define various box types. Of
course you don't get to see the actual graphic during normal text editing.
There is a placeholding rectangle.

All of this comes from Dean Hannotte, who is a data processing consultant
with 20 years' experience on mainframes, minicomputers, and PCs.

You'd think that in 20 years he just might have had a chance to notice that
there is an obvious hole in his education.

Oh well, let them dream on.

Shirley Kehr