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Article #34822Re: Academic Wordprocessing
From: Sho Kuwamoto
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 1988 08:12
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 1988 08:12
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In article <685@stech.UUCP> sysop@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington) writes: <in article <71@ucl-cs.UUCP>, jpearce@uk.ac.ucl.cs says: << << We are looking for MAC software suitable for the processing of << academic papers and theses. [FWP has some nice features...] < <I agree with you about FW. It really is the only package that can handle <citations and bibliographies as required by academics. TeX can also <do formatting (and is especially good for tables), but it has a major <drawback - it's not WYSIWYG. Formatting is done by placing codes in the <text; you can't see what the document will look like until it's printed <(though some environments do have a screen preview module). < <Personally, I think the WYSIWYG environment is more important to an academic <than any additional formatting that TeX might bring. I basically agree, but it really depends on what field you're in. If you do a lot of equtions, TeX is really nice. For me, at least, it's a real hassle going into one of these equation DA's, and the output is not nearly as nice looking. -Sho
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!iuvax!pur-ee!pur-phy!sho From: sho@pur-phy (Sho Kuwamoto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Academic Wordprocessing Message-ID: <1676@pur-phy> Date: 27 Nov 88 08:12:00 GMT References: <71@ucl-cs.UUCP> <685@stech.UUCP> Reply-To: sho@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (Sho Kuwamoto) Organization: Purdue Univ. Physics Dept., W. Lafayette, IN Lines: 22