bill@hao.UUCP (Bill Roberts) (10/08/86)
It seems to me that the Mac "system" can potentially offer a very good technical word processing tool at a reasonable cost. Consider using the Full Page Display (FPD) from Radius (see MacWorld View, Sept. 86), with MacWrite or MS-Word (or whatever). Of course technical word processing includes equations. There are a number of "scientific" font packages available. I do not know how well these packages fit in with the "what you see is what you get" (wysiwyg) interface of the Mac. It seems that a previewing capability would have to exist to make the "system" truly valuable. Is anyone out yonder in netland using anything like I've just described? Does anyone know if the scientific font packages support the wysiwyg interface? Now all we need is someway to convert from PostScript (assuming the LaserWriter would support all of the features (e.g. equations)) to Impress, since our laser printers are all Imagens! --Bill