On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 10:54 -0500, mark wrote: > Ian Lynch wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 00:04 -0500, mark wrote: > >>John W. Kennedy wrote: > >> > >>>>Windows' easy-to-use interface, > >>>A second-generation copy. > >>>>Office's powerful business apps, > >>> > >>>Fundamentally designed in the 80's. Word for DOS and Multiplan were > >>>genuinely innovative (though, as I understand it, Word was developed > >> > >>Bullshit. As I've said before, once WordPerfect hit 5.0, and became > >>truly *usable*, it was (and is, IMO) far superior to Word, if for *no* > >>other reason than F3 (reveal *ALL* codes, not just what Word feels like > >>revealing), so you can *always* beat it into submission. > > > > Impression Publisher was far better and its DDF was somewhat like ODF. > > Yes, but we're talking about word processors.
Why draw that distinction when the same software is equally good at both tasks? That is another flaw going back to days when graphical page layout programs needed very expensive hardware and a mindset again reinforced by the technological philistines. Impression was designed as a document processor that was equally at home writing a single page letter, publishing a 300 page document or designing a magazine. I dropped WP5.1 like a red hot potato when I started using Impression. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMS Ltd --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
