[DM-MUG] word processors

[Jon Thompson]

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Jon Thompson
Jon Thompson Consulting
jon@mac-consultant.com
(515) 360-0250
On May 29, 2004, at 2:09 PM, John Kisner wrote:

> I have been doing some investigating of alternatives to MS Word, which 
> I feel has so many features that I find it hard to use.  I've mostly 
> been using AppleWorks since switching to OS X (since WriteNow never 
> made the leap), but am increasingly unhappy with the way documents 
> print.  I'm left with a few questions, and a call for comments:
>
> 1) Is Office 2004 "carbonized" or "cocoa"?  I'm not sure how much this 
> really matters, but I have found that Nisus and Mellel are both cocoa 
> apps, which is supposed to be better.

Office is most likely Carbon with a large amount of Cocoa in it as well.

The difference only applies to the programmers writing the code.  
Carbon is built into OSX so that programmers do not need to completely 
re-write their applications, which are often millions of lines of code.

Cocoa is a programming environment that is much easier to use than 
Carbon, thus is a no-brainer for new applications.

> 2) Regarding #1, the claim is made that Nisus and Mellel look better 
> on-screen than do the carbonized Word and Mariner Write apps.  Does 
> anyone out there agree/disagree with that statement?

There is some differences in the implementations of Carbon and Cocoa.  
I have not personally noticed a difference, although others may have.

>
> 3) UltraMookie has a comparative review 
> (http://www.ultramookie.com/more/817_0_1_0_M/).  Mellel has a features 
> comparison (http://www.redlers.com/generalcomparison.html).  These 
> have left me torn between Mellel and Nisus.  Aside from neither having 
> all the features I might like at some theoretical level, both would do 
> just fine for most of my writing.  Anyone out there a big fan of one 
> over the other?

Unfortunately, I cannot help with this, as my writing needs are slight. 
  In fact, I've found that TextEdit does as much as I really want in a 
word processor.

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- Jon
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