Text and Word Processing
Campus Computing · University of Missouri - Columbia · 200 Heinkel Building · 314-882-2000
Update 16 August 1994 by ccpaulh@monad.missouri.edu. Subject to change!
Directories
/LocalApps
Applications in directory /LocalApps make use of the NextStep graphical interface. These can be invoked simply by clicking their icons. Help is generally available via the application's menu.
/NextApps
NeXT's applications.
NOTE: Unix commands are documented in the Unix man pages accessible via Digital Librarian.
Alphabetical List of Text and Word Processing Applications
diction
Identify wordy sentences, suggest improvements.
Unix command.
Edit
NeXT's editor. Press Command-r to create documents in Rich Text Format, which allows multiple fonts, Rulers, and about everything but page-oriented formating. What you are reading here, for example, is in RTF.
For instructions, see manual NeXT User's Reference.
In: /NextApps
From: NeXT
eqn
Typeset mathematical expressions. Unix command
lookbib
Build index for Bibliography. Unix command.
nroff, troff
Text formatting Unix commands.
ptx
Generate permuted index. Unix command.
style
Analyze surface characteristics of a document. Unix command.
Quotations
Bartlett's Quotations
In: /NextApps
From: NeXT
TEX
Text-Processing for Scientific Applications (pronounced "tek").
Unix command. See /LocalLibrary/Answers/Local/Using.TeX.dvi.
texview
NeXT application for previewing TEX documents.
TeXmenu.app
Integrates use of TeX facilities.
In: /LocalApps
From: nova.cc.purdue.edu
wc
Word Count. Unix command.
Webster
Webster's Dictionary, with pictures and Roget's Thesaurus.
In: /NextApps
From: NeXT
wfcomp
Word Frequency Count. Unix command.
WriteNow.app
Word Processing.
For instructions, see the manual NeXT Applications.
Release 2 of WriteNow is a full-function version licensed for all NeXTs.
In: /NextApps
From: NeXT