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Is there a decent word processor that does handle this correctly?

anon373839 3y ago
Apple Pages. It also renders fonts much, much better - the difference in kerning quality is night and day. Unfortunately, Pages just doesn’t provide a lot of flexibility and power for formatting the document. It’s more like Google Docs - suitable for high school book reports.
- jwells89 3y ago
  Better font rendering has been a hallmark of mac apps since OS X was released. Even the version of TextEdit (mac Notepad/WordPad analogue, for those unfamiliar) that shipped with OS X 10.0 likely beats out Word when it comes to things like kerning.
  - slater 3y ago
    I always marvel at what Windows users put up with re: fonts. And it doesn't seem to be getting better.
    - anon373839 3y ago
      What’s strange is that I use Microsoft Word on a Mac, and the font rendering is uniquely terrible in Word. At times it can seem that Microsoft goes out of its way to make its products do a bad job with core functionality.
    - kwanbix 3y ago
      Care to share an Image? I have no idea what you are talking about.
- housemusicfan 3y ago
  So true. Pages is a modern-day version of "The Writing Center" from my Macintosh IIci.
- Affric 3y ago
  I love Pages and I hate Pages. Pages is awful for things like bibliographies and referencing. It's LaTeX is janky, underpowered, and for some ungodly reason avoids computer modern like the plague. In 99% of things you will be just one option short of what you actually want to display. With that said it is easy to use. The documents almost always look like a document and not a bunch of text that has incidentally ended up on the same page. It doesn't take up too much vertical by using side panels well. It makes everything it does let you do easy. I have used heaps of WYSIWYG editors over the last 30 years. I have used some LaTeX ones too. Pages is the only one where I would keep the UI and just add more functionality (somehow without changing the UI).
LordShredda 3y ago
Unironically latex. It's a whole damn programming language but you can be sure it'll be readable 50 years from now

Apple Pages. It also renders fonts much, much better - the difference in kerning quality is night and day. Unfortunately, Pages just doesn’t provide a lot of flexibility and power for formatting the document. It’s more like Google Docs - suitable for high school book reports.

jwells89 3y ago
Better font rendering has been a hallmark of mac apps since OS X was released. Even the version of TextEdit (mac Notepad/WordPad analogue, for those unfamiliar) that shipped with OS X 10.0 likely beats out Word when it comes to things like kerning.
- slater 3y ago
  I always marvel at what Windows users put up with re: fonts. And it doesn't seem to be getting better.
  - anon373839 3y ago
    What’s strange is that I use Microsoft Word on a Mac, and the font rendering is uniquely terrible in Word. At times it can seem that Microsoft goes out of its way to make its products do a bad job with core functionality.
  - kwanbix 3y ago
    Care to share an Image? I have no idea what you are talking about.
housemusicfan 3y ago
So true. Pages is a modern-day version of "The Writing Center" from my Macintosh IIci.
Affric 3y ago
I love Pages and I hate Pages. Pages is awful for things like bibliographies and referencing. It's LaTeX is janky, underpowered, and for some ungodly reason avoids computer modern like the plague. In 99% of things you will be just one option short of what you actually want to display. With that said it is easy to use. The documents almost always look like a document and not a bunch of text that has incidentally ended up on the same page. It doesn't take up too much vertical by using side panels well. It makes everything it does let you do easy. I have used heaps of WYSIWYG editors over the last 30 years. I have used some LaTeX ones too. Pages is the only one where I would keep the UI and just add more functionality (somehow without changing the UI).

LordShredda 3y ago

Unironically latex. It's a whole damn programming language but you can be sure it'll be readable 50 years from now