You might want to learn latex. I am learning it now, or will once I get the app installed properly. This is a robust way of writing papers. It looks a lot like html code but can do everything that nay word processor can do and more. It will take a while to learn as the learning curve from what i can see from the manuals is high, and so is installing it, roar, but it will be worth it to me anyways as I can do everything in a wyswyg kind of way if that makes sense. On Aug 5, 2013, at 4:20 AM, Chris Gilland <[email protected]> wrote:
> OK, I know that the subject has come up many times about Pages, and I confess > that I really haven't been following this Pages thread... mainly because > until now, I really haven't had much a need to. I have been thinking, and > have talked with my family about this as well, and you know... I didn't do so > well in high school, I'm not gonna lie to you all. I wouldn't say I failed > every class, and it's not like I didn't graduation with a deploma, as I most > certainly did, class of 2001, but my GPA wasn't the greatest by any means. > OK, so you wonder how on earth this is related to Pages for the Mac. It's > extremely so! Here's the story. I very seriously want to talk to my state > and see if they will help me to pay for me to take some highschool corses at > a local community college about 15 or 20 miles from here. Though I didn't do > this for the reason of going back to school, nor expanding my study, I could > see where this could be a great way to justify my recent purchase. Not to be reimbursed but just as to have a good reason. I just last Friday bought me a brand spankin new 13 inch aluminum MacBook Pro! I confess it doesn't have all the trimmings. It's just the basic non retina display I5 based model, but still a great! system. Anyway, so the things is, I'm sure that a lot of what I'd be doing through these corses would involve writing. Especially being one of the corses I want to take is to get better with my writing skills, and with my grammar. I also want to learn more how to correctly do essays, and reports, and hopefully eventually, term papers. Now, I totally understand that this list, one of the rules is that Windows discussion is off limits. OK, that's fair, I'll give both Lynn and gordon that one, but I'm going to have to at least vaguely mention it in order to ask my question, so forgive me. > > I have bought a copy of Pages from the Mac app store. I've also bought it > for I O S, so I can use it on both my IPad Mini, as well as on my IPhone 5. > Ultimately, as a potential student, I need to know if Pages probably will > suit my needs from an accessibility standpoint. OK, I know that question is > very subjective. It depends on my definition of quote: needs. Yeah, ok, > fine, again, that's cool, I'll give you that one as well. No problem. But > more generally speaking, the thing is, I can't afford Ann Robinson's > tutorial/training on Pages right now. I'm sorry, but there is just no way. > Though I feel the price is reasonable from what I've heard, it's just not > money right now I can spend. Thus, I have two choices. I either can see if > the state, provided I do! wind up going back to school will buy me a copy of > Microsoft Office for Windows, which then would mean them also having to buy > me VMWare Fusion or help me install Bootcamp, which would mean them buying me > Windows 7 or 8. I have JAWS, and NVDA so that's not an issue, but let's stay on the mac side of things as this isn't the list for Windows. Bottom line is: they'd either have to buy that, or, they'd have to find a way to buy me Ann's training material and maybe pay for me to have some one on one lessons with her. I have looked at Pages a little bit, and it looks really really nice. I'm just a bit weery if it will suffice. For example, I know that editting and creating tables is pretty much mearly impossible with Voiceover. I know there is a work around, but I'm not at a position where I have the time to learn work arounds just to jerry rig something to work. I need something which is robust but is rock solid for the most part. So, not being able to read/edit/create tables natively within pages for me is a major strike. Again, I know that there are ways around it, but I'm dead serious. I really need to see something which natively will work without me having to use another app like Text Edit or Safari etc. to make it work. To me, that seems... well, frankly?... Absurd. I'm not trying to be Mr. Picky-Ticky-pants, but realistically. Yeah... you get the point. Second off, what about things like setting my line spacing, or setting my margins accordingly. Or maybe working with proper formal indintations. What if I need to make an outline? Finally, I know headers and footers can be done to some extent, but what about head notes or foot notes. What if I need to make a bibliography, and site sources? I know that I'd learn how to do that by hand, but can I do like you can in Word, and use a wizard that will format that for you automatically? What if I need to highlight something to bring more attention to a sighted reader, or some how fill it in with shading? One if to spiffy up a document, I want to add a thumbnail image of clip art from an already available galary which I could browse? These are all things I need to know if I can easily d o. Most of these are going to be strikes. Though not all of them are absolute deal breakers, I'd say over 95% of them are. I might try to set up a mac genious appointment to see if I can maybe sit down with one of them, and discuss my needs, and really just lay out for thwem my case, and see what they say. I also plan this morning to speak both with Apple Accessibility and see what they say. I'm really dead serious about this, and whatever it takes for me to get some solid answers, I'm willing to do, as long as it's within my resources, budget, and within reason. I almost wonder if there are any Taking Control books which have been made on Pages. 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