Hi Richard, You're asking a slightly different question than Becky did, but this should really go on the macvisionaries list. Yes, you can write and format college papers or professional papers on a Mac. If you need to write technical professional papers with detailed equations or math (of the sort that Word completely fails at) you can use TeX through the TeXShop program with complete accessibility. This offers far more formatting control than Word, Pages, or any similar word processing program. But it's not a good solution for the general user, because the initial learning curve is high, and unless you regularly use the features it's not worth the effort. However, one of the assistant moderators on the mac-access list decided to learn TeX for his university papers, even though he was not majoring in a technical area. TeX is free cross-platform in Windows, Linux, and Mac, and also multi-lingual.
A better solution for some people that works as another alternative to Pages on the Mac might be Nisus Writer Pro in the recent version 2 release. This is a very accessible commercial product that was discussed on the mac-access list at the end of June and beginning of July, but you can read the recent TidBITS review of Nisus Writer Pro 2.0 by Joe Kissell to check the details: http://www.tidbits.com/article/12220 What is still lacking for people who have to work with Microsoft Word documents is the complete compatibility of passing the same document back and forth between programs like Microsoft Office and Pages or Nisus Writer Pro without having to fiddle anything. If you want to join the mac-access list or read the forums, use this link: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access HTH. Cheers, Esther On Jul 15, 2011, at 03:54, Richard Turner wrote: > Are there any users that have successfully written and formatted college > papers, or professional papers on a Mac? > If so, how did you do it? > As far as formatting, centering, indenting, bold or italic text, creating > headers, and bulleted lists. > > Richard > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
