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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Subject: Re: Amiga in the Workforce
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Date: Sat, 1 Jun 1991 19:47:11 GMT

In article <13078@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> aru@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Sri-Man) writes:
>In article <arctngnt.1472@amiganet.chi.il.us> arctngnt@amiganet.chi.il.us (Bowie J Poag) writes:
>>many control options as does Wordperfect, and its FREE, as opposed to shelling
>>out $500 for WP 5.0...Idiots.
>
>What programs?  What do you mean more control options than WP...give me some
>evidence of it.  The only WP that I know that even comes close to WP is 
>Excellence.  You tell me.. :-)
>

	I'm HOPING he is referring to TeX, which comes far closer
than any commercial Amiga Word Processor, but then again, it
isn't a word processor. It is almost its own concept. It is more
like writing your document in PostScript. You have enormous
flexibility, and some macros make your life somewhat easier.
	But, you have to write your document is some generic text
editor and send it to the TeX program to "run" it. There are some
areas where a word processor can make your life easier that TeX
can't simply because it isn't running, a text editor is.
	It'll be interesting to see an editor designed around
TeX, written to write TeX "code" for you. Of course, DisplayTeX
would be ...

>	Sri
>	aru@mentor.cc.purdue.edu


Now the world has gone to bed,		Now I lay me down to sleep,
Darkness won't engulf my head,		Try to count electric sheep,
I can see by infrared,			Sweet dream wishes you can keep,
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