True enough. I do actually keep text edit on hand for a lot of things.
Taking down short numbers. I have a file called Scratchpad.rtf in my
desktop folder that is used for this. It is opened at the beginning of
each day and is often used for taking down the odd number say from
directory enquiries. Marvelous to see how useful it is. Better than
wordpad in many respects as well because it opens up word documents.
-James-
On 25 Apr 2008, at 21:07, David Poehlman wrote:
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
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Hands-On Technolog(eye)s
Reducing Technologies disabilities
one byte at a time
