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In article <Bw3I6E.IqJ@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens) writes:
>andrew@cubetech.com writes
>> NeXTSTEP sure does come with a word-processor!  It's called Edit.
>
>The inability of Edit (even with RTF) to do footnotes, page numbering, headers
>and footers makes Edit most unusable as a word processor.  It's a nice text
>editor for code and informal letters, but it's certainly no replacement for
>even the simplest of modern word processors.  Also, NeXTs inoperative spell
>checker and lack of integrated thesaurus work against Edit being anything more
>than a fancy code editor.

    Not to mention

    * no ability to set top and bottom margins

    * no ability to set precision tab stops or do anything with the ruler
      with precision

    * no ability to force a page break -- just TRY to write a document over
      two pages long without being able to specify page breaks!

    * What you see is not what you get ... edit gets confused with spacing
      for certain system standard fonts and what you see on the screen is
      no where near what you get when you preview a printer dump.

    I don't mind the lack of headers and footers so much but I don't
    understand how NeXT could possibly push an editor in which you cannot
    even set top and bottom margins or force page breaks.  All I can
    imagine is that someone decided not to 'push' commercial providers by
    leaving these features out of NeXT's own software, but unfortunately
    the result is a conception, at least by me, that much of NeXT's own
    software is sorely inadequate and unusable for more then the most
    trivial of things.

    Take another example -- the Draw demo.  With only a few days of work
    this could be made into a wonderfully useful program.  It took me all
    of 10 minutes to add color to text, for example.

						-Matt

>I wonder if this is part of a unbundling plan or part of a plan to make the
>common denominator something NeXT can do as well (the majority of modern
>computers can read and write ASCII at the very least).
>--
>-- Jeff (jeffo@uiuc.edu)
>-- NeXTmail ok

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