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Re: What DTP/WP do tables (other than Frame)?

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From: Clifford T. Matthews
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 22:09
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Just a reminder to people who have read Jeff Nicholson-Owens' question,
my reply and his reply:  If you're looking for a word processor that does
tables, and more, Word 5 for the Macintosh will run under Executor and
is a viable alternative to WriteNow! and WordPerfect.

Although Word5/Executor doesn't provide what *Jeff* was looking for, the
combination does provide more than WriteNow! and WordPerfect supplies.

So again, if your question is:

    "From what I gather WriteNow! and WordPerfect don't do tables at all.
     The latest NeXTWORLD has a preview of PasteUp and says that it too
     doesn't do tables either.  Is there anything other than
     FrameMaker(even coming up) that will do tables?  How about Pages?"

The answer most empathically is yes; Word 5 under Executor will do tables.
It may not be the solution for Jeff, but it is the solution for many people.
Remember, neither WriteNow!, nor WordPerfect, nor Frame were written with
the NeXT in mind.  Word competes nicely.

NOTE:  As the founder of ARDI, I'm  biased.  Except for announcing new
releases (keep your eye out), I generally don't use comp.sys.next.* to
plug our product, but when asked, I will point out that it's there.

	--Cliff[ord T. Matthews]	ctm@ardi.com or
	Abacus R&D, Inc.		iclone!ctm@unmvax.cs.unm.edu
	1650 University Blvd., NE	(the latter is polled frequently)
	Albuquerque, NM  87102

	(505) 766-9115

Questions about Executor:		questions@ardi.com
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From: ctm@ardi.com (Clifford T. Matthews)
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Subject: Re: What DTP/WP do tables (other than Frame)?
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Date: 17 Aug 92 22:09:51 GMT
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