Re: 'Death to Word'

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

I wrote the first half of my book in Word and the second
half in NotaBene. NB was a great relief. It ain't perfect, and v. 9
crashes a lot when you are working inside footnotes, but it gives you the
pretty screen of Word with the familiar Xy commands, functions, values,
and XPL.
> >But didn't MS prop up Apple for
> years by continuing to develop essentially the only
> heavy-duty Mac w.p., Word?
>
> That is true. DOS MS Word is very interesting in many respects. I gather
> that it was the testbed of windowing routines for Windows, and it had
> mouse support before many other applications could handle a mouse, a Mac
> feature. Much of the DOS MS Word stuff was to be the core of the Windows
> operating system. Microsoft had an interesting vantage point over both PC
> and Mac development (even OS/2 at one stage). This angered Steve Jobs who
> thought that Microsoft stole the Mac idea in developing Windows.
> Windows Word is a port of DOS Word, and sadly it still shows. Take for
> example the clumsy headers and footers in Windows Word. A true publishing
> application handles those in a different way. But as whole and for very
> basic word processing, Word is ok.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Kari Eveli
> LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
> lexitec@xxxxxxxx
>
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