My AppleWriter ][ word processor on the Apple II+ didn't have spell
check but it was sold as a word processor. Not much for fonts but I
could put my printer into double-strike emphasis mode. It did do
footnotes so maybe that's the current line in the sand between a text
editor and a word processor.
CB
Darcy Burnard wrote:
So I guess the question is, at what point is something a text editor,
and at what point is it a word processor? Suppose you had a basic
text editor, say notepad for example. Further suppose that you could
gradually add features to it until you got something like MS word? At
what point would this program change from a text editor to a word
processor? That is, what feature or features differentiate the two
things?
Here's another thing to consider. Does the definition of a word
processor change over time? Consider the old BEX program on the Apple
2 computers. At the time it was considered to be a word processor.
However there weren't any features to do with fonts. It had neither a
spell check or grammar check. Now BEX was a program for the blind, so
perhapse it's a bad example. But even the old dos based word perfect
from the 80's has a small set of features compared to a modern app
like MS Word.
Darcy
On 25-Apr-08, at 5:24 PM, vashaun jones wrote:
So now we have things like simple text editors? Either it is a text
editor like the name implies or it's a word processor.
On Apr 25, 2008, at 4:18 PM, Josh de Lioncourt wrote:
Hi Richy,
Yes, I think you're right. WordPad, IMO, does not quite classify as
a word processor. It's closer than Notepad, but still too
barebones. Notepad is definitely a text editor, without question.
TextEdit, on the Mac, is a simple word processor. I think,
personally, that it has enough functionality to earn that
designation. All word processors have varying degrees of
functionality, and TextEdit is on the low-end of that, but it still
is more than a text editor.
Josh de Lioncourt
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On 25 Apr, 2008, at 1:04 PM, Richie Gardenhire wrote:
I suppose wordprocessing means different things to different
people; at least, that's the impression I'm getting. For example,
I've never really considered WordPad to be a wordprocessor, when
compared to WordPerfect, for those who remember using WordPerfect.
Richie Gardenhire, Anchorage, Alaska.
