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- From: lindor@eng.umd.edu (Lindor Eric Henrickson)
- Subject: Re: (Summary) Word/W4W/WP: Which is best?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan08.074928.20161@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Fri, 08 Jan 93 07:49:28 GMT
- Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park
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- >booloo@framsparc.ocf.llnl.gov (Mark Boolootian) writes:
- >
- >Word for Windows? The people in my department are not technical
- >people, so I am concerned that learning a new interface maybe
- >too much. Has anyone made this switch?
-
- Before you jump on the Word bandwagon, I thought I'd throw in my
- two cents. Yes, WP has had (is having) a few growing pains
- migrating to the Windows environment, but in my opinion WP is
- definitely the most powerful and **flexible** of the three
- mentioned wordprocessors. Thus far, I've found that WP5.2 for Win
- seems to be working pretty well (just my opinion though).
-
- An example of WP's flexibility/power: I do a lot of technical
- writing, so I need to do lots of equations and use lots of special
- characters. To my knowledge, AmiPro doesn't even have an equation
- editor, and in Word you are more or less forced to pick all equation
- symbols off a palette. Now, picking symbols/special characters off
- a "palette" may seem like
- the easiest way to do things at first glance, but I find that
- when you need to do many equations/special characters its generally
- a pain in the butt! In WP, you have the choice of choosing
- symbols/characters from a palette, OR typing in symbols using an
- equation writing language, OR mapping special characters,etc. to the
- keyboard. Thus, for frequently used characters, you type them in
- using the equation language, or by mapping them to the keyboard
- ...much faster than picking things off
- a palette (for me at least), and for less frequently used characters,
- you pick them off the palette.
-
- Anyway, this is just one example where I've found that WP is
- much better than Word. As I said earlier, just my two-cents...
-
- LH
- lindor@eng.umd.edu
-