Hello,
Today's word processor is yesterday's desktop publishing application.
With alignment tools designed with visual display in mind. I still
believe that TextEdit is a very highly functional text editor, and it
has some great features for creating HTML and RTF documents. But these
are now considered to be basic functions. Basic functions like spell
check are system wide on the Mac. I believe Pages or Word would count
more as word processing, because they cover a very large number of
functions directly related to layout. They also help in the creation
of form documents, as in a mail merge. Pixel accuracy is obtainable in
today's word processor, but not usually in a text editor. That's
TextEdit right there.
Ryan
On Apr 26, 2008, at 10:01 AM, David Poehlman wrote:
I'd like to hear Ryan's take when finished reading the thread.
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Thanks Ryan, I just gave up on the issue mainly because it was a
loosing battle and because every search that I did never explained the
difference between the two. I went down this path when I first got my
Mac, so I knew it would cause a debate. Even Apples's explanation of
it says it's a word processor, but if I worked for the newspaper they
would laugh me out the door if I told them I was using Text Edit.
On Apr 25, 2008, at 10:42 PM, Ryan Dour wrote:
The Mac doesn't come with a word processor. It comes with a text
editor. I believe that in this day and age, TextEdit is categorized
under text editor, not really word processor. People consider word
processors to be programs that can arrange type faces and provide
basic layout. TextEdit in RTF mode can do some of this, but just
look at Word, Pages, etc. That's what the public would consider
today to be a word processor. Otherwise, you could call nano at the
command line a word processor. I remember the old Apple IIe and
AppleWorks. The thing was easily just a text editor by today's
standards, but would have been considered a word processor back in
the day.
Ryan
On Apr 25, 2008, at 12:31 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.
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