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Re: Mac Disertation Word Processor

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From: Wong Sai Kee (Graduate Assistant...
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 13:16
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mek@guinan.psu.edu (Mark E. Kotanchek) writes:
>[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.

Can I find a demo for it?  I had tried FrameMaker on Ultrix (full
version), my impression is not good may be due to Unix.

>Mark.
>--
>Mark Kotanchek
>Guidance & Control Dept - 363 ASB
>Applied Research Lab/Penn State
>P.O. Box 30
>State College, PA 16804
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