My question was rheotorical and while you have some good points, and just because someone calls their kettle a different color, that doesn't make text edit not a word processor. A word processor is anything that processes words.
----- Original Message ----- From: "vashaun jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 3:49 PM Subject: Re: apple store snafoo: If you have to ask then something is seriously wrong with your thought process. Can you do your college studies with Text Edit? That's almost like saying creating tables and spreadsheets are the same. By the way, can you create tables, foot notes or the like in Text Edit? The answer is no and that answer is simple. Its because it is a Text Editor and not a word processor. I can type text in a web form, edit it and change font sizes, but that doesn't make it a text editor much less a word processor. If it was a word processor then we wouldn't need Microsoft to make MS Word accessible, we wouldn't be looking at other alternatives to word processing such as Nisus Writer. Even the makers of Bean which is a closer example and a better tooled text editor says it isn't a word processor. Just because you can type text doesn't make it a word processor. On Apr 25, 2008, at 2:32 PM, David Poehlman wrote: > so what's text edit? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "vashaun jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS > X by > theblind" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 2:25 PM > Subject: Re: apple store snafoo: > > > It doesn't! > On Apr 25, 2008, at 1:31 PM, David Poehlman wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> I just got a message telling me that someone went to an apple store >> to look >> at Macs and when they asked if the mac came with a word processor, >> the sales >> person said no. >> >> -- >> Jonnie Appleseed >> With His >> Hands-On Technolog(eye)s >> Reducing Technologies disabilities >> one byte at a time >> >> > > > > >
