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- From: brianj@bedrock.cs.umd.edu (Brian Johnson)
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- Subject: Mac Disertation Word Processor
- Message-ID: <BRIANJ.92Dec23235201@bedrock.cs.umd.edu>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 04:52:01 GMT
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- Organization: Computer Science, Univ. of MD, College Park, MD 20742
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- I'd like to hear some opinions about word processors for large
- projects (my dissertation).
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- I have a Macintosh at home and at school, as well as access to UNIX.
- I prefer not to use latex.
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- Latex Nasty for images.
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- MacWrite No support for multi-piece projects.
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- Microsoft Word Minimal support for multi-piece projects
- ok references with WordRef
- good tables, list generation
- good for figures
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- WordPerfect Nice, clean looking interface
- multi-piece projects with publish and subscribe?
- table and list generation
- automatic figure numbering and cross references
- support for bibliographic references???
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- I have not tried any others
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- Is Nisus the way to go? I am still a poor grad student working on his
- dissertation so money is a factor, but so is time. I wnat to
- concentrate on writing - not tables, figure numbering, citations, etc.
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- Thanks for any feedback. Any pleasant dissertation writing tales out
- there?
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- I will be gone for 12 days so email opinions would be nice. I'm not
- sure how soon my news server rolls over old articles. I'm not sure
- which group follow-ups should go to - probably comp.sys.mac.apps or
- alt.grad-student.tenured.
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- Thanks
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- Brian Johnson Computer Science Department
- brianj@cs.umd.edu University of Maryland
- (301) 405-2725 College Park, Md 20742
-
- ...there are no strangers in this world, only friends who have never met...
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