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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?

I will be gone for 12 days so email opinions would be nice.  I'm not
sure how soon my news server rolls over old articles.  I'm not sure
which group follow-ups should go to - probably comp.sys.mac.apps or
alt.grad-student.tenured.

Thanks
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Brian Johnson                                       Computer Science Department
brianj@cs.umd.edu                                        University of Maryland
(301) 405-2725                                           College Park, Md 20742

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