Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ncis.llnl.gov!ncis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!agate!bionet!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!nic.MR.NET!hal!ncoast!mattern From: mattern@ncoast.UUCP (Duane L. Mattern) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Is WordPerfect 5.0 any good? Keywords: WordPerfect, Manuscript, T3, Troff Message-ID: <13343@ncoast.UUCP> Date: 19 Jan 89 12:33:52 GMT References: <1213@uwovax.uwo.ca> <6206@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> <14622@srcsip.UUCP> Reply-To: mattern@ncoast.UUCP (Duane L. Mattern) Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 29 In article <1371@mtunb.ATT.COM> dmt@mtunb.UUCP (Dave Tutelman) writes: > >WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) is MORE than just a feature. >It changes the whole nature of things. >Assertion: > TROFF/TEX IS NOT A WORD PROCESSOR, IT'S A PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE. >TEX is a little more intuitive than TROFF as a programming language, >but not different in kind (do you prefer C or Pascal?) Both are >more powerful than the WYSIWYG word processors I use, but they're >programming languages, NOT word processors. > I agree. TROFF/TEX/LOTUS Manuscript are programming languages and very powerful. WordPerfect 5.0 and WordPerfect Library and Plan Perfect make a nice package (particularly for business types), but WordPerfect 5.0 is really flawed when it comes to processing math symbols and equations. Just to get the greek letter theta, I have to type 2 8,16. That letter is only displayed if it is in the IBM character set. If it is not in the IBM character set a little square is displayed which represents graphic data. Sure you can use "REVEAL CODE" and see that the graphic block is 2 8,16 , but that means I have to remember all the character set to edit the document. WordPerfect 5.0's preview mode is O.K. (fair) , but I use a WYSIWYG wordprocessor (T3 ,T cubed) to do equations and math symbols. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | Duane Mattern (216)433-8186 (mattern@ncoast.uucp) | | Sverdrup Technology, Inc. at NASA Lewis Research Center| | 21000 Brookpark Rd, M/S 77-1 Cleveland, Ohio 44135 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------