At 12:36 -0400 2002-04-30, Patrick Rourke wrote: > > Presumably, this compact edition does not require a >> magnifying glass, does it? A friend of mine bought a >> really really tiny one which came with a (huge) magnifying >> glass when he went back to Korea because he wouldn't >> be able to access the online edition for free any more. > >Actually, I am referring to the edition with the magnifying glass. This >(the Compact Edition) is btw different from the New Shorter Oxford English >Dicitonary, which only goes back to around 1800 or so and is missing a lot >of the features of the full OED. > >I for one will not buy the OED on CD until it's in a format I can use at >home on my Mac (OS X) - what I do at home is best done in OS X (though I >wish more applications had extended Greek support), what I do at the is >office best done in Windows XP.
I wrote to Oxford today to complain that there should be a Macintosh version. Please do likewise, if you're a Mac user and think that we deserve better! -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
