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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:
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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