Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!actnyc!rmf
From: rmf@actnyc.UUCP (Robert M. Fuhrer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Technical word processing
Summary: Anybody used Laser Author/FWP best price?
Keywords: Laser Author, FWP, Word
Message-ID: <985@actnyc.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jun 88 14:31:09 GMT
Reply-To: rmf@actnyc.UUCP (Robert M. Fuhrer)
Organization: InterACT Corporation
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Has anybody used Laser Author?  I've seen a mini-review in MacUser (June
1988 issue) which describes it as a "technically-oriented word processor."
I'm interested in something to use in writing technical documents/papers;
and I don't want to spring for something in the Word price range if I can
avoid it...

Apparently, FullWrite was announced at around $160-170 (see same issue of
MacUser) before it actually hit the streets, but now seems to go for about
$270.  Salespeople I talked to at various software houses claimed A-T raised
their price at the last minute... has anybody seen a price much better than
that?

Incidentally, can anyone with FWP/Word experience confirm Jeff Meyer's
assessment in a previous posting of FWP's better handling of graphics and
Word's better handling of tables?  Since my target is technical documents,
it seems that FWP would do better if that was the case (I expect I will
end up using more graphics than tables)...

I already have Expressionist, whose user interface seems extremely easy to
use in the little experimentation I did.  It covers most of what I want in
mathematical typesetting (although I don't expect to be producing many math
textbooks in the next couple of years, anyway :-) ), so I think that one of
FWP/Word/Laser Author in addition to what I've already got should give me
what I need.

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