Michael.Witbrock@cs.cmu.edu (05/06/91)
> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.amiga.applications: 16-Jan-91 Re: When > will new WordPerfe.. Marc Barrett@ccvax.iasta (1418) > In article <17621@cbmvax.commodore.com>, daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com > (Dave Haynie) writes: > > What do you want a word processor for anyway? Real Men write directly > in > > DTP programs. Or in markup languages, like TeX or Scribe. No word > processor > > is powerful enough. > Microsoft Word is, period. Microsoft Word, in one package, includes > ALL the tools that you would ever need to typeset a book. Is that > powerful > enough for you? Dave's right, if you want a DTP package, it makes sense to use one. I just wrote my thesis proposal in FrameMaker (running under various unices). I used to use LaTeX (again under unices). There are some things that Framemaker wouldn't let me do, which LaTex would have, but having a package which can do the whole thing, including diagrammes, in one package is a big win. Since FrameMaker runs on practically everything (suns, pmaxen, sparcs, vaxen, rts, rs6000s, NeXTs, and computatdor horribilis inter amigianos non dispudandum (excuse my poor latin)), and since it is easier to use than TeX (sorry, but it's true - TeX lovers should start work on the wisiwig interface now), it will probably replace TeX as the typesetter of choice for (lazy) academics. This being the case, if I were commodore, and if I were an amiga user (actually, I am), I'd contact Frame Technologies, and ask them about porting framemaker to the amigas (both unix and non). Wordprocessors, it seems to me, were an intermediate phase between text editors and dtp packages, and their time may well be up. Perhaps, though, wordperfect is really a dtp in wp clothing. michael