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- From: 5916rahmank@vms.csd.mu.edu ( )
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
- Subject: Re: (Summary) Word/W4W/WP: Which is best?
- Date: 8 Jan 1993 16:29:35 GMT
- Organization: Department of EECE, Marquette University
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- In article <1993Jan08.074928.20161@eng.umd.edu>, lindor@eng.umd.edu (Lindor Eric Henrickson) writes:
- ->>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.
- ->
- This is not true. Ami pro 3.0 does have an equation editor. And
- Word for Windows (WfW) equation editor is not limited to the symbols
- and characters on the palette. In fact, one can choose from any set of
- font available under windows. Also if one wish to use a so called
- 'equation writing language', there is a set of field codes built-in
- the WfW's, right from version 1.0. However, IMO, the equation editor
- is much easier to use. WfW also has the flexibility that one can
- use a combination of several fonts in a single equation.
-
- One very important draw back (IMO) of wordperfect (5.?) is that
- even it is a windows app, it can not use some custom fonts that
- other win apps like WfW, Ami pro, excel, ... can use.
-
- >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
-
- In my humble opinion, the choice of a word processor depends on
- several factors. Most of the popular packages available in the
- market provide with almost all facilities that any compatitive
- package, however, each package has some 'little' thing that may
- not be obvious in another package. For instance, the font support
- of WfW (and many other win apps) is better that WP. My personal
- reason for switching from wp5.1 (dos) to WfW (1.0) was the DDE
- facility between excel and WfW. But by no means I think that WP
- is not a good wordprocessor. As far as wordprocessor is concerned,
- most cases it may be a matter of 'getting used to'.
-
- For somebody who is searching for a wordprocessor (i.e., not
- already used to), I strongly recommend WfW. Although it has it's
- weaknesses, I like it very much.
-
- -Anis.
-
-