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- From: mek@guinan.psu.edu (Mark E. Kotanchek)
- Subject: Re: Mac Disertation Word Processor
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- Organization: Penn State Center for Academic Computing
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- Date: Tue, 05 Jan 93 13:54:22 GMT
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- In article <ARIE.93Jan4155753@quip.eecs.umich.edu> arie@eecs.umich.edu
- (Arie Covrigaru) writes:
- > >>>>> On 4 Jan 93 19:06:42 GMT, segall+@cs.cmu.edu (Edward Segall) said:
- > | Article-I.D.: cs.C0CFrB.np.1
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- >
- > | brianj@bedrock.cs.umd.edu (Brian Johnson) writes:
- >
- > |>I'd like to hear some opinions about word processors for large
- > |>projects (my dissertation).
- >
- > |>I have a Macintosh at home and at school, as well as access to UNIX.
- > |>I prefer not to use latex.
- >
- > |>Latex Nasty for images.
- >
- > |>MacWrite No support for multi-piece projects.
- >
- > |>Microsoft Word Minimal support for multi-piece projects
- > |> ok references with WordRef
- > |> good tables, list generation
- > |> good for figures
- >
- > |>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???
- >
- > |>I have not tried any others
- >
- > |>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.
- >
- > |>Thanks for any feedback. Any pleasant dissertation writing tales out
- > |>there?
- >
-
- [pros & cons of MS Word and a recommendation of FrameMaker munched]
-
- My recommendation would be for FrameMaker. I use it it on my NeXTstation
- as well as my Powerbook 170 and for doing technical documentation it kicks
- MS Word's butt. A special favorite of mine is the equation formatter also
- being a symbolic processor so I can easily rearrange, expand, simplify,
- transform, etc. equations.
-
- Academic price here at PSU is $247 which is a little heftier than the
- academic price of $67 for MS Word; however, you get what you pay for...
- and in this case, that is particularly true.
-
- Mark.
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- Mark Kotanchek
- Guidance & Control Dept - 363 ASB
- Applied Research Lab/Penn State
- P.O. Box 30
- State College, PA 16804
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