And there is one important distinction about how this should be perceived, the facts are there. I was only stating them.
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Poehlman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS Xby theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 7:22 PM Subject: Re: does the Mac have a word processor? what about Mail? You must be young then, I remember when there was nothing but stand alone word processors, heck, we called'em type writers. Well, there was that cranky old thing that came later, but the point is that there is a world of difference between three things. text editors, word processors and document processors. The latter is what you think of as a word processor plus the extra stuff in it. So as I was saying, the guy at the store did not provide appropriate information. ----- 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 7:15 PM Subject: Re: does the Mac have a word processor? what about Mail? Good point... all the web stuff reverts back to them basically having the same description even though we all know that's not fundamentally true. I seem to stand technically corrected. I guess the right tool for the right job lies in the hands of the person doing the work. I grew up with distinct descriptions and uses, but this new 2.0 world that we now live in has changed from years of old. The next thing you know the kids will be saying Fords are luxury cars because they have leather seats. On Apr 25, 2008, at 5:10 PM, David Poehlman wrote: > 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 >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > >
