WordPerfect vs, MS Word (was: Re: [Ti] Re: OpenOffice on Mac)

[Ardeshir Mehta]

On 3-Dec-05, at 8:21 AM, William Scammell wrote:

> On Nov 23, 2005, at 11:54 PM, Ardeshir Mehta wrote:
>
>> On 23-Nov-05, at 9:19 PM, Mikael Byström wrote:
>>
>>> Ardeshir Mehta said:
>>>
>>>> For some of my work, even MS Word is not good enough. Check out  
>>>> the Introduction and Chapter 1 of my book
>>>
>>> Well, I don't see Word as a layout tool at all, but it works for  
>>> internal company documents I guess.
>>
>> Well, I've used MS Word for laying out all my other books and  
>> articles. See for example my (rather short) "Essay on Geometry" at:
>>
>> <http://homepage.mac.com/ardeshir/EssayOnGeometry.pdf>
>
> Looks good. For what you're doing, Word seems to be a good match.

Yes, it does seem so to me.

WordPerfect on a Windows machine is also good. I once used it for  
another book (as yet unfinished).

> But *don't* try doing multi-column layout in Word. Ack!

Darn right! That's why I did not use it for

      <http://homepage.mac.com/ardeshir/Ch.1-SingleSided-Draft.pdf>.

> And if you think InDesign is expensive, don't even look at Quark.  
> <shudder>

Yes, indeed. I could not afford either of them. <Sigh>.

But PageMaker (on my Ti- Book running in "Classic" mode) satisfies my  
requirements, so I am not *too* depressed about my not being able to  
afford them!


Cheers.














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