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Re: Don't Be Soft On Microsoft
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> A good freeware WYSIWYG wordprocessor is needed.
> (Amos, you told me in the dinner that emacs has WYSIWYG capabilities.
> But I didn't ask you then whether it is possible to print from emacs and
> retain the graphical attributes - does it have postscript backend or
> whatever?)
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A good WYSIWYG wordprocessor is not enough. The problem is the need to
be compatible with what other people use. For example, while studying
for my MBA, I have been involved in several projects that were done in groups.
Since each member wrote his part which was later combined into a single
document, the documents had to be in the same format. The word processor
that eveyone had was WORD, so that is the one that was used.
WORD was the de-facto (I should say is) word processor standard.
Not that it was flawless, or that it was the best word processor around,
it was simply the most widespread one.
Therefore, the word processor you refer to must, at least, be able to
read and write WORD documents and offer similar facilities.
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