Marketing is part of your answer. In fact, I am not even certain the name word processor is even used anymore when mammoth document processing apps are discussed/described.
----- 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 5:07 PM Subject: Re: does the Mac have a word processor? what about Mail? The defense rest its case because of an inability to prove that there is a difference between text editors and word processors. I wonder why they are called two different things and more often than not word processors have more functionality and produce a better type set and formatted outlay. I believe in the right tool for the job and in most cases a document in the business world can't be created and structured using note pad or Text Edit. On Apr 25, 2008, at 4:08 PM, David Poehlman wrote: > I'd tell them that wordpad is built-in and that it has limitted word > processing capabilities but text edit is more than word pad. > > What about Mail Shaun? you can do all kinds of things in Mail. > > ----- 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 4:05 PM > Subject: Re: does the Mac have a word processor? what about Mail? > > > David I can type text just about anywhere in Leopard that doesn't make > it word processing. Data entry maybe but not word processing. If > someone asked you if you could do word processing on a Windows box I > am sure you wouldn't tell them that Notepad was their guy, would you? > On Apr 25, 2008, at 3:43 PM, David Poehlman wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> We do wordprocessing on the Mac more than we think. I know people >> who use >> mail to compose all their documents. >> >> -- >> Jonnie Appleseed >> With His >> Hands-On Technolog(eye)s >> Reducing Technologies disabilities >> one byte at a time >> >> > > > > >
