peterr@utcsri.UUCP (Peter Rowley) (02/18/85)
A few points about Microsoft Word running on the IBM PC:
- Has anyone got a .PRD (printer description) file for a Symbolics laser
printer, and appropriate driver software? I would love to be able to
print Word documents on our central laser printer.
- I just finished using Word to write an 80 page MSc thesis. With each of
the six chapters as a separate file, the document was entirely manageable.
I should have learned about style sheets from the beginning, but even
without them, I had no trouble making rather extensive formatting changes
(e.g. changing the linespacing from 1 to 1.5 for most of the document).
Using the mouse to move around in the file and to edit is quite a joy.
- I used Word on a 384K IBM PC with only one 160K disk drive and found the
performance (with my Epson MX-80 with Graftrax Plus) very good, except
for the print quality, which I would describe as fair, but readable. I'd
love to try an Epson LQ-1500 as an output device or, as indicated above,
a laser printer. Does anyone have any suggestions as to good output
devices for Word? I make a lot of italics/roman font changes, so using
a single-font daisy-wheel printer would be tedious.
- All that needs to be done now is to allow simple integration of pictures
and text, including solid lines in headers, etc. There's a suggestion in
the book "Microsoft Word Made Easy" (Paul Hoffman, Osborne McGraw-Hill,
1985) that the Tandy 2000 version allows this, but I haven't seen it.
The book is, by the way, very good and complete and I recommend it.
peter rowley, University of Toronto Department of C.S., Ontario Canada M5S 1A4
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