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From: ace@tidbits.com (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: TidBITS#205/06-Dec-93
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 93 20:55:57 PDT
TidBITS#205/06-Dec-93
=====================
The word processor wars heat up, and we review WordPerfect's
latest release, 3.0. We also examine a MessagePad bug that may
bite in an alarming way, examine how to determine your version
of Quicken for update purposes, discuss a new video card from
Apple via Radius, and glance in shock at why Apple isn't
establishing a new facility in Williamson Country, Texas.
Hypertext proceedings, great quotes, CPU comments, and HP
rebates fill out the issue.
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Topics:
MailBITS/06-Dec-93
Nothing Like A Little Bigotry To Brighten Your Day
Apple/Radius Card Looks to the Future
Quicken Updates
Alarming MessagePad Bug
WordPerfect Mac 3.0: The Next Best Thing
Reviews/06-Dec-93
[Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-205.etx; 30K]
MailBITS/06-Dec-93
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**Hypertext '93 Proceedings** -- A number of people have asked for
information on how to get the proceedings of the Hypertext '93
conference. I don't know the price, but you can find that and
other information (such as shipping details, I imagine) by
emailing <acmpubs@acm.org>. The proceedings for Hypertext '93 are
ACM Order Number 614930 and consist of 32 papers, video
descriptions, and panel descriptions, about 300 pages.
**Quote of the Week** -- As a followup to Charles Wheeler's
article in the last issue about converting a Mac site to DOS-based
software, a friend passed this on. "After spending nearly a quarter
million dollars on DOS-based equipment to replace the Macs in our
company, our president was heard to ask, 'How can we make them more
Mac-like?'"
A close second is Stewart Alsop's comment in the 29-Nov-93 issue
of InfoWorld that talks about how PDAs differ from computers.
"Many people knowingly wink and say that neither Newton nor Zoomer
is the answer. Microsoft and Compaq will get WinPad out and you'll
be able to run your Windows software on your PDA, they say. I
consign these people to the category of unknowing and
disinterested nincompoops. ... In fact, these are the same people
who used to make the vacuous statements about running a mainframe
on a desktop."
**Bill Dickson** <wrd@beer.wa.com> writes in regard to On The Road
and CPU (TidBITS #203_): CPU 2.0.1c will automatically switch to a
"docked" set if it senses that a Duo is connected to a dock, and
then back to the previously-used set when the machine is restarted
outside the dock. Unfortunately, if the undocked set is configured
to slow the Mac down to 16 MHz when the Mac is on battery power,
and then you re-dock the Duo and restart, you'll find that the
machine is still running at 16 MHz. You must go into the PowerBook
Control Panel's options, set the speed back to normal, and
restart.
**Psion Updates** -- Patrick Edmond <edmond@quincy.inria.fr>
writes: "As a Psion Series 3 owner, I can echo Charlie Stross's
comments in TidBITS #203_ about the usefulness of the Psion
machine. One little correction though: the mailing list mentioned
is no longer in operation."
Jack Kobzeff <jkobzeff@sybil.jpl.nasa.gov> writes: "You can
purchase the Psion Series 3 for a list price of $399 from Psion's
U.S. direct sales arm. For information and other pricing call
508/371-9875," and Masato Ogawa <ogawa@ga.sony.co.jp> noted that
CompUSA and Fry's Electronics also carry the Psion, according to
an ad in a recent PC Magazine.
**Prentice-Hall International-UK** made a mistake in the online
offer made to TidBITS readers for my book. They have been offering
20 percent off 18.50 pounds, when in fact the base price they
should have been charging was 27.50 pounds, which is now in
effect. Sorry for the mistake, and if you lucked out on the lower
price, congratulations.
**$100 rebates** are available for Mac owners who purchase any HP
LaserJet Series M laser printer before 31-Dec-93. You need a
completed rebate certificate (available from your dealer or HP), a
copy of your sales receipt, the bar code label from your printer
box, and the serial number from your Mac (to prove ownership).
Hewlett-Packard -- 800-354-7622
Nothing Like A Little Bigotry To Brighten Your Day
--------------------------------------------------
Everyone knows that Silicon Valley is an expensive place to do
business, and I've heard warnings that unless the area does more
for business, companies will immigrate to more favorable
locations. I doubt we'll see refugees fleeing for the Nevada
border any time soon, but companies like Apple are locating new
facilities in other states, most notably Texas, and specifically,
in Austin, Texas.
Apple hoped to establish a 130 acre, $80 million business park
just outside of Austin, in Williamson County, and had asked the
Williamson County Commissioners for a $750,000 tax rebate in
exchange for spending gobs of money on the facility and creating
an estimated 700 jobs in the area. Last week the county
commissioners rejected Apple's proposal, not because of the
financial aspects of the deal, but because Apple offers benefits
to domestic partners of homosexual employees. Few companies are so
progressive in this respect, although Microsoft has a similar
policy.
Apple spokeswoman Lisa Byrne, sounding somewhat stunned, said in a
radio interview that the company would not push the proposal
further unless the commissioners reconsidered their three to two
decision. I was bothered most by the sheer bigotry of the action -
these commissioners seem to equate this policy with the
encouragement of homosexuality, ignoring the fact that
homosexuality, if a decision at all, certainly isn't one based on
whether or not companies offer health benefits to partners. In
that radio interview, one of commissioners went so far as to claim
that allowing so many homosexuals into the area (in their eyes,
most of the 700 jobs would obviously be filled by gays) would
result in broken homes. Hmm? Welcome to the myth of the 1950's.
Whatever one's views on the subject, the real world today contains
homosexuals, and it's interesting to see the denial of that fact
spill over into the money-driven world of big business.
I'm most surprised, and somewhat impressed, by the fact that the
commissioners came out and announced the reasoning behind
rejecting Apple's proposal. It would have been far easier for them
to reject it for some trumped-up reason, and then to congratulate
each other for having turned back the gay menace at the gates of
decency (as defined by the Williamson Country border). Enough said
- maybe Apple will locate the facility near Seattle instead.
Apple/Radius Card Looks to the Future
-------------------------------------
by Mark H. Anbinder, News Editor -- mha@baka.ithaca.ny.us
Technical Support Coordinator, BAKA Computers
Apple seems to waver between wanting to provide complete Macintosh
system solutions all by itself, and leveraging third-party
developers' product lines to best effect. They've found the best
of both worlds with last month's announcement that the company has
begun shipping a new "Macintosh Display Card 24AC," an accelerated
24-bit NuBus card manufactured for Apple by Radius.
Currently the card, which supports all of Apple's Macintosh-
compatible monitors and many third-party monitors, is available
only in a bundle with the $3,599 Macintosh 21" Color Display
(bundle part number B1737LL/A). According to Apple, the card will
be available as a stand-alone product in early 1994. Intended
users are those who need to view and manipulate large, full-color
images.
The Macintosh Display Card 24AC is compatible with all Quadra,
Centris, and Macintosh II family computers with an available NuBus
slot (the IIsi and Centris/Quadra 610 and 660AV require a NuBus
adapter for their PDS slots), and will support forthcoming PowerPC
computers. This card differs from the similar Radius card, the
PrecisionColor 24X Pro, in that it includes custom ROM firmware
and will be compatible with future Apple displays.
Information from:
Apple propaganda
Pythaeus
Quicken Updates
---------------
People on the nets have been discussing updates to Quicken, the
popular personal finance package recently, and Harry Hahn
<hhahn@macc.wisc.edu> passed on a useful tip for finding out what
version of Quicken you have. Quicken does not advertise new
versions, so the only way to find out what version you have is to
open the About Quicken dialog box and press the R key, after which
the release number appears next to the version number. The last
reported release is release 4, but some reports indicate that the
only way to get it is to know the secret bug. What's the bug? Good
question.
Most of the problems reported by Larry Wink
<fdmwink@ucf1vm.cc.ucf.edu> were in the Investment portion of
Quicken, and you can find out more about them by searching the
macintosh-news.src source in WAIS with the phrase "Tell me about
bugs in the Quicken Investment Manager as reported by Larry Wink."
The first hit should be the Info-Mac Digest V11 #119. Of course,
this is easiest done using WAIS for Mac or MacWAIS, both of which
are available from <ftp.tidbits.com> in:
/pub/tidbits/tisk/mactcp/wais/
Of course, the other way to do this is to email Intuit and ask for
the update, a tack with which Bob Warner <71431.2567@compuserve.com>
had excellent luck, receiving a update in email from Eric Tilenus
<76450.3340@compuserve.com> of Intuit Marketing within a few hours.
So maybe the online support, is, as is often the case, a more
productive line of inquiry.
Email might especially help those of you outside of the U.S.
Darren Challis <dchallis@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> wrote to tell us that
he tried to get an update from the Australian Intuit distributors,
a firm called Reckon Software, and they eventually sent him the
wrong version. When he called back and explained that he wanted
the newest version, they said they couldn't help, since checking
the version number requires a Mac and they didn't have one. Ouch.
Alarming MessagePad Bug
-----------------------
by Mark H. Anbinder, News Editor -- mha@baka.ithaca.ny.us
A problem that's been informally acknowledged by Apple tech
support could cause a loss of data for Newton MessagePad users.
Apple is working to fix the problem, which they believe is a bug
in the MessagePad's handling of alarmed recurring events in the
built-in Datebook application.
The bug manifests itself as a state where the Newton splash screen
comes up and stays up. Eventually it realizes it's been on too
long and goes to "sleep" but then immediately turns back on and
again sits with the splash screen up for a while.
Neither hitting Reset nor leaving the main battery out for a few
minutes typically helps, but both are certainly worth a try.
Starting but cancelling the hard reset process (by holding down
the power switch and pressing reset, then selecting "cancel" when
warned about data loss) has also apparently worked in some
circumstances. In most cases the user must perform the hard reset,
which wipes all data in the MessagePad. If the user has a recent
backup, this is only an annoyance, if not, it's quite a pain.
According to the gentleman at Apple, this seems to occur in some
cases that relate to using alarmed recurring events. An Apple
internal document suggests that users who must have an alarm on a
recurring event should first make it a single event, add the
alarm, then add the recurrence setting again.
The support engineer did not know whether the upcoming 1.05 system
update will include a fix for this bug; the update is expected to
be released before the end of the year.
I recommend that MessagePad owners without a ready means of backup
obtain one immediately! Apple's Connection Kit software is
effective at backing up the information, and even provides the
capability to access and modify data in the event your MessagePad
is elsewhere (for repairs, vacations, or what have you). The next
version of the software will provide more thorough import and
export capabilities, but even the current (1.0) version is useful.
The Connection Kit software is available for Macintosh and
Windows, and allows you to connect your MessagePad to Mac or
Windows machine via serial cable (included) or to a Mac via
LocalTalk.
Each copy of the Connection Kit can be installed on only one
computer, but can back up the contents of more than one
MessagePad, so sharing wouldn't be a bad idea. (I can see it
now... Newton dealers will soon be offering MessagePad backup
services! "Come on in twice a week and back up your data!")
Information from:
Apple Technical Assistance Center
WordPerfect Mac 3.0: The Next Best Thing
----------------------------------------
by David Reiser -- reiserdb@ttown.apci.com
I've been using WordPerfect Mac since the infamous pre-1.0 beta
sale. To paraphrase Victor Kiam, I liked WordPerfect Mac 2.0 so
much I wrote a book about it. (Well, actually only about 55-60
percent of a book. My wife, Holly Morris, wrote the rest.) And I
think that WordPerfect 3.0 continues WordPerfect's continual
improvement in features, interface implementation, and
performance. Overall, I feel that WordPerfect Mac 3.0 is the best
available Mac word processor.
Interface
Major software packages these days have feature lists far in
excess of what any single user needs - general purpose software
will always fit that description. Consequently, the design and
implementation of the software's interface determines the
usability of all that power. WordPerfect has added Button Bars and
Ruler Bars to the standard Mac interface used in the 2.x series.
Other noticeable changes include simplified dialog boxes and a new
location for the Status Bar at the bottom of the screen instead of
at the bottom of each document window. (You can choose to hide the
Status Bar completely.)
You can display a single Button Bar along any edge of the screen,
and you can change any button on the bar to activate any of
WordPerfect's features. WordPerfect can only show one Button Bar
at a time, but you can define any number of bars, saving them in a
preferences file (WordPerfect calls it the Library) or in
individual documents. WordPerfect has different default Button
Bars for normal editing, graphic editing, and equation editing;
you can swap among the bars via a pop-up menu at the top of each.
Ruler Bars are a cross between Button Bars and a normal ruler. You
can show or hide any of the eight ruler bars (you only see the
eighth, the Mailer, if you have PowerTalk installed), but you
can't change the functions of the buttons on the Ruler Bars. Of
the Ruler Bars, Ruler and Layout make up what was the ruler in
2.x. The other Ruler Bars (Font, Styles, Table, List, Merge, and
Mailer) tend to have functions that had been in hierarchical
menus. I find the Ruler Bars easy to use, and I generally only
display the Ruler and Layout Bars. If you prefer a spartan
interface, the only thing that must remain onscreen is the Control
Bar, a thin strip under the window title bar that contains the
buttons to show or hide the different Ruler Bars.
WordPerfect expanded the Status Bar to display up to eleven
parameters and abbreviated help. This help feature is great, since
it works much like balloon help but is so fast I don't anticipate
the need to turn it off. The Status Bar help only describes Button
Bars, Ruler Bars, and the Status Bar itself. For menus and
dialogs, you must still use balloon help. Although I find
WordPerfect's balloon help to be about twice as fast as Word's, it
is still too slow for standard use.
I don't think there is room in the Status Bar for all eleven
parameters at once, but most people won't want them all. The
parameters are: logical page/line (logical page is the number that
actually prints out on the paper), physical page (the one that the
printer driver needs if you're printing only part of a document),
time, date, position on the page from top left, write protect
status, caps lock status, num lock status, active document number,
active cell in a table, and PowerBook battery status.
There are the usual (and sometimes unusual) raft of choices
available in the Preferences arena. You can choose whether you
want formatting to act like Word (one paragraph at a time) or like
WordPerfect (until another formatting command overrules it). There
is a choice to prevent WordPerfect from trying to translate fonts
linguistically (if you use Symbol font sporadically for
science/engineering you do want to prevent the linguistic approach
at least sometimes). You can assign a keystroke to any of the 306
commands. You can choose whether and how often to have WordPerfect
back up your open files, and you can make WordPerfect drop a guide
line from the ruler whenever you reposition a tab or margin
setting, which I found to be much more helpful than I expected.
There are far more settings, but those are the most memorable
options.
Features
New features are always the most obvious to an old hand at a
program. Tables, an equation editor, drag & drop editing, and the
integration of Grammatik 5 into the main program are the main
additions.
Tables are fairly predictable, and I find them easier to modify
than Word's (at this point I have about the same experience with
tables in both programs). WordPerfect used to meet about 80
percent of my table needs with its column features. The biggest
advance for me is the ability to select a column (it's about
time). In a large table, text entry display bogs down toward the
bottom. In a 10 column by 30 row table, I could easily out-type
WordPerfect by the end. For single value tables (like data tables)
the solution is to type the data as tabbed text without formatting
it at all, select the text, and quickly convert it to a table with
a menu command. By contrast, reformatting tables in WordPerfect is
much faster than in Word for the same table. If you discover that
you need more room in one column, just grab the column border and
move it. Redraw of the reformatted table isn't fast, but it beats
Word.
WordPerfect lets you perform simple arithmetic on table elements,
including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and
averaging (the most common spreadsheet functions). Recalculation
after editing a cell is strictly manual, though, via a recalculate
button on the Table Ruler Bar. WordPerfect is smart about
arithmetic in that it lets you mix numbers and text in a cell and
can still add the number to a total (it considers only the first
item recognized as a number in each cell for arithmetic
operations).
The equation editor is simple, straightforward, and capable. My
secretary raves about how wonderful it is. I have used it for a
few dozen real equations, and I figure I won't bother with my
third party equation editor any more. WordPerfect supports Edit
Graphic Object, so if you don't wish to switch from another
equation editor, you should get better integration with
WordPerfect 3.0.
The internal graphic editor enables you to create fairly
sophisticated drawings. I especially like its bezier curve tool,
which I find easier to use than the same tool in Canvas. I wish
arrowheads were a normal feature. Mike Tippets of WordPerfect
wrote a macro for creating arrowheads, but they aren't as easily
modified as native arrowheads usually are. You can assign any
color available in Apple's color wheel to any object, including
text in the main document. There are two special types of graphics
- Draw Overlay and Watermark. Both are full page graphics that
overlap the text area on the page. A watermark works like a header
or footer in that once defined it appears on every page until
discontinued or changed. In contrast, a draw overlay appears only
on the page where it is originally defined. You can have a
separate overlay for each page and up to two watermarks and an
overlay active simultaneously.
Style support is better than in earlier versions, but I'm still
waiting for them to get rid of what I call the "style bulldozer."
If you apply a style to a paragraph containing manual changes
(remember that sporadic use of Symbol font I mentioned earlier?),
the "partial paragraph" formatting changes are wiped out if the
applied style includes information contrary to the manual change.
Because of this limitation and the lack of character styles,
styles are poor for body text, but great for everything else, such
as headers, footers, and tables of contents. You can link styles
together in a chain, or base one style on another.
WordPerfect allows you to create lists, including Tables of
Contents, Tables of Authorities (for lawyers), figures, text boxes
(sidebars), tables, indexes, and up to six other custom lists. If
you assign captions to your figures and tables, the list
automatically uses the caption as the list text. For indexes,
WordPerfect includes a concordance feature that enables you to use
a list of terms, one per line in a separate file, to generate the
index without marking each entry. Your concordance need not be in
alphabetical order, but since WordPerfect lets you sort text,
there's no reason not to speed up indexing by sorting the
concordance.
I mostly use Sort for distribution lists, but it's really a mini-
database scheme implemented in a word processor. Sorting seldom
receives nearly enough attention in any review I've seen,
including this one.
WordPerfect treats endnotes and footnotes as separate entities, so
you can use both at the same time. I can't live without endnotes
in my technical writing, and on the occasions when I've needed
footnotes too, it has been nice not to have to fake it manually.
Outlining in WordPerfect is weak, being little more than
sophisticated paragraph numbering, and without outlining features
like collapse/expand or ready rearrangement of levels.
You can script WordPerfect with Frontier and AppleScript, and it
supports the Required and Core suites of Apple events, along with
the Word Services Suite that enables you to, for instance, use an
external spell checker like Spellswell from Working Software.
Although WordPerfect is WorldScript-compatible, it cannot handle
right-to-left languages.
I can't effuse enough in describing how much I like WordPerfect's
macros. I almost always have the macro recorder create as much of
an operation as I can do manually; then I go to the macro edit
window and add loops, conditional branches, keyboard input
prompts, and so on. The macro editor has an on-the-fly syntax
checker when you hit return after typing a command - a valid
command automatically boldfaces to let you know it is valid. If
invalid, the first invalid part becomes underlined to identify the
glitch. Macros have three kinds of variables - local, global, and
document. Local variables are restricted to a single macro, global
macros are available to all macros during a session, and document
variables are stored with documents. I have a memo-creation macro
that stores the author's name in a document variable. Since the
variable is saved with the document, when I or my secretary finish
a memo, a signature line macro recalls the author's name without
asking.
Performance
Since version 2.0.1, every release of WordPerfect has been faster
than the previous version, an unusual and welcome feat. I think
WordPerfect assigned some poor programmer the sole task of making
WordPerfect 3.0 scroll quickly. Using the arrow buttons on the
scroll bar, WordPerfect screams. I opened a 2.3 MB text file (it
took slightly over two minutes to open on a IIci in System 7.0.1)
and it scrolled smoothly and quickly. The one action that I
suspect WordPerfect will never make quite as fast as the fastest
competitor is jump-to-beginning or -end of a file. WordPerfect
does some format tracking during that jump, so it will never be
instantaneous. Nevertheless, they've made the jumps faster too.
The first jump is the worst: a beginning to end jump on the 2.3 MB
file took 30 seconds the first time (the file had no carriage
returns in it, so it was all one "paragraph"), and 10 seconds for
subsequent jumps.
WordPerfect has published data which claim that WordPerfect
compares well with Word 5.1a in the speed of most features, and is
up to three times faster at arrow scrolling, spell checking, and
grammar checking for some unspecified file on several
configurations. I haven't checked with a stopwatch, but it feels
like it might be true, other than for text entry in large tables.
WordPerfect files can balloon to a large size. The 10 column by 30
row one page table occupies 60K. Other documents aren't quite so
outrageous, but WordPerfect files aren't particularly space
efficient. WordPerfect offers a compressed format as an option for
file saving (yet another thing you can set as a default, if disk
space is an issue). WordPerfect compresses its own files a bit
better than Compact Pro does, so WordPerfect's solution is fine.
Compatibility
WordPerfect Mac 3.0 files should be compatible with WordPerfect
6.0 for DOS and Windows. The import/export conversion filter
hasn't yet shipped for the Mac version, but supposedly the other
versions can read Mac files directly. WordPerfect will even be the
first to offer cross-platform equation compatibility (it's about
time), but only with version 6.0. WordPerfect Mac can still read
and write WordPerfect 5.1 and 5.0 formats, and the 6.0 filter
should ship by the end of the year.
WordPerfect Mac does a decent job of reading Word files, but can't
read fast-saved files, like some other Mac word processors. I find
that I have to strip out fixed line height codes in many imported
Word files. WordPerfect tries so hard to make the file immediately
printable in an identical page image that the line heights wreak
havoc with display of graphics. A one-command macro does the trick
("Remove All Code (forward;line height)"). Sometimes I need to
tweak converted styles a bit, too, but all things considered I
think the Word import is good. The conversion is a one-way street
with only a sidewalk (RTF) to go back the other way, and this
doesn't always work well. Unfortunately, saving in DOS WordPerfect
format and then importing that into Word fails. WordPerfect Mac
also supports XTND conversions, both for import and export, but
includes no XTND filters.
WordPerfect Mac requires a 2 MB memory partition, along with
System 6.0.7 or later. If you plan to use the graphic editor much,
I think a 2.5 or 3 MB memory allocation is safer. The application
itself is about 2.5 MB on disk, although a full installation uses
about 7.5 MB. WordPerfect includes a bunch of fonts - some are
required for the equation editor, and some facilitate
compatibility with the fonts that ship with the 6.0 products.
Give this word processor a try, it truly is a Word beater.
[Even I, with my bias toward Nisus, must admit that WordPerfect
has a winner here - WordPerfect Mac 3.0 does many things right and
continues to support Apple's technologies such as QuickTime,
PowerTalk, AppleScript, and WorldScript more fully than anyone
else. Word 6.0 will have a fight on its hands when it ships
sometime next year. -Adam]
Upgrades cost about $50 ($25 if you only want the disk),
sidegrades from other word processors are about $85, and the full
version is about $300. You can find a demo version of WordPerfect
that cannot save files and that prints "DEMO" across all pages at
<sumex-aim.stanford.edu> as:
/info-mac/app/word-perfect-30-demo.hqx
Reviews/06-Dec-93
-----------------
* MacWEEK -- 29-Nov-93, Vol. 7, #46
Kai's Power Tools 2.0 -- pg. 1
DayMaker Organizer 3.0.2 -- pg. 47
At Ease for Workgroups 2.0.1 -- pg. 52
Genesis 650 -- pg. 54
CrossTalk for Macintosh 2.0 -- pg. 55
* InfoWorld -- 29-Nov-93, Vol. 15, #48
In Touch 2.0 -- pg. 109
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