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From: sho@pur-phy (Sho Kuwamoto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Academic Wordprocessing
Message-ID: <1676@pur-phy>
Date: 27 Nov 88 08:12:00 GMT
References: <71@ucl-cs.UUCP> <685@stech.UUCP>
Reply-To: sho@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (Sho Kuwamoto)
Organization: Purdue Univ. Physics Dept., W. Lafayette, IN
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In article <685@stech.UUCP> sysop@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington) writes:
<in article <71@ucl-cs.UUCP>, jpearce@uk.ac.ucl.cs says:
<< 
<< We are looking for MAC software suitable for the processing of
<< academic papers and theses.   [FWP has some nice features...]
<
<I agree with you about FW. It really is the only package that can handle
<citations and bibliographies as required by academics. TeX can also
<do formatting (and is especially good for tables), but it has a major
<drawback - it's not WYSIWYG. Formatting is done by placing codes in the
<text; you can't see what the document will look like until it's printed
<(though some environments do have a screen preview module).
<
<Personally, I think the WYSIWYG environment is more important to an academic
<than any additional formatting that TeX might bring. 

I basically agree, but it really depends on what field you're in.  If you
do a lot of equtions, TeX is really nice.  For me, at least, it's a real
hassle going into one of these equation DA's, and the output is not nearly
as nice looking.

-Sho