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Printing papers that are created on your home word processor is fairly simple, provided you plan in advance. Translated, that means finding an appropriate systems disk for a Macintosh or a suitable word processing package on your IBM PC (or compatible...
...will look a little funny). However, it's also possible to write a term paper with regular fonts laser-compatible. Simply use one of OIT's Mac system disks (which have the correct fonts), and then load in your Word or Mac Write file. Once in a Mac word processor, it's possible to define a block of text and change the font from the old image-writer font--such as Geneva or New York--into a laser font--such as Times Roman or Helvetica...
Printing from an IBM compatible file requires some advance preparation. Before going to OIT, a formatted version of the text to be printed must be created. Several of the leading word processors offer this as an option, usually called 'Create a Print File'. Preferable to a regular formatted file is a Postcript file which can be made with Microsoft Word or another Postcript compatible word processor...
...There definitely are advantages for a personusing a word processor as opposed to a typewriter.At the moment, it would be impossible to do athesis on a typewriter," said Joseph Konstan '87,a former president of the Computer Society whoworked with the committee on acquiring themachines
...great many of the King-Bachman books seem to have been written on a word processor by a word processor. The author often employs three exclamation points !!! where one would suffice, shows a blithe disregard for grammar ("My mother used to tell my brother David and I to 'hope for the best and expect the worst' "), and produces metaphors that obviously embarrass their creator: "He felt that he had unwittingly stuck his hand into the Great Wasps' Nest of Life. As an image it stank." But all along he displays one talent that never flags -- he is able to convince...