🚀 go-pugleaf

psrc@cbnewsl.att.com (Paul S. R. Chisholm) writes:

>We may have the opportunity (?) of getting a manual either in troff or
>Ventura Publisher(R) form.  I know how good vi/emacs + troff is; how
>about Ventura Publisher?  From what I've heard, it's a better word
>processor than most page layout ("desktop publishing") programs . . .
>but that may not be saying much.  No spelling checks?  How are the
>search and replace facilities?  Anything else come to mind?

Ventura Publisher should never be confused with word processing
programs. VP is a page layout, desk top publishing program. For
instance, there is no spelling check, no thesaurus, no search & replace.
VP should be used with a word processing program to generate and
manipulate raw text, and a separate graphics program to manipulate and
edit graphics. When you need to put it all together use VP to put the
publication together. It does Table of contents and both forward and
backward references, indexes and the like.

Just my thoughts... often people expect VP to be a wproc. and are
disappointed.


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