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From: miller@intvax.UUCP (Dave Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Word Processors
Summary: Equations and word processors
Message-ID: <1025@intvax.UUCP>
Date: 17 Apr 89 22:53:48 GMT
References: <1777@aucs.UUCP> <49861@linus.UUCP> <13299@louie.udel.EDU>
Organization: Sandia National Labs, Org. 1411, Albq, NM
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In article <13299@louie.udel.EDU>, new@udel.EDU (Darren New) writes:
> In article <49861@linus.UUCP> sdl@linus.UUCP (Steven D. Litvintchouk) writes:
> >ProWrite supports:  
>   ...
> >The only features you desire that ProWrite doesn't support are macros
> >and a thesaurus.
> >
> >Steven Litvintchouk
> >MITRE Corporation (a.k.a. "The Closed Software Foundation" :-) )
> >Bedford, MA  01730
> >Fone:  (617)271-7753
> >ARPA:  sdl@mitre-bedford.arpa
> >UUCP:  ...{att,decvax,genrad,ll-xn,philabs,utzoo}!linus!sdl
> 
> I see many people post messages ending like this, yet have seen nobody
> mention whether it supports tables or mathematical formulas.
> Personally, I can handle the thesaurus myself. It's the little
> greek letters that I don't want to be drawing by hand.
> Only TeX (which I can't stand) and Lotus Manuscript (which I
> can't find for the Amiga) even mention mathematical formulas in
> advertisements or reviews.  Not everyone out there is
> publishing newsletters :-).    -- Darren

I have been using my Amiga to produce my dissertation in Computer Engineering
and it contains many complex equations.  I use a combination of the
following to do this:
     1) Scribble! word processor for text
     2) CityDesk desktop publishing software for page layout/font support
     3) JetSet Utilities from CLtd. for HP fonts and download utilities
     4) Greek font set from HP
     5) HP LaserJet II printer

Admittedly this is not a cheap solution, but good quality desktop publishing
never is.  This combination may also sound like an awkward way of producing
documents, but once you have things set up and become familiar with the
software, it is pretty easy to use.  It is not WYSIWYG, although you can
look at your pages the way they will print from CityDesk after you have
imported your text.  The one big disadvantage of this approach is that
CityDesk currently does not handle grayscale images very well.  Whenever
I want to incorporate one in my document, I just leave space for it on a
page, print out the labels using CityDesk, and then reinsert the paper in
the printer and print the image from DPaint.  This does require some
manipulation of preferences parameters in order to get the image sized and
placed on the paper where you want it.  It would be much nicer if CityDesk
did this for you - if version 2.0 ever comes out, maybe it will.
CityDesk also supports postscript, but not as well as Professional Page.
I prefer the HP to Postscript printers - it's much cheaper and faster.
I hope this gives you some ideas.

                                               Dave Miller
                                               Sandia Labs, Albuquerque