I'll pass the suggestion on to my mother, Wiesje Geldof of Sigma Books, http://www.sigmabooks.co.nz who is writing textbooks (maths) right now. </shameless-plug>
On Thu, 02 May 2002, you wrote: > Write one, publish it, and the world[1] will beat a path to your door. > > [1] or schools anyway. > > On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 15:40, Yuri de Groot wrote: > > Universal to every gui wordprocessor: > > > > A "File" menu with "Open", "Save" and "Save As" > > An "Edit" menu with "Copy ^C", "Cut ^X", "Paste ^V" > > A tool bar with: " [font-name] [12] [B] [U] [I] " > > The tool bar will also have a picture of a disk and a picture > > of a printer. > > > > Beyond this there will be differences - some will have page set-up > > under the "File" menu, others have it under the "Format" menu. > > > > I realise that not _All_ word processors are like the above, > > but enough are to make it a generalisation. > > > > A neutral typing textbook would point this out, and > > people who learn this way would not be frightened of > > working on a different application, because they will be > > confident of the similarities. Yuri
