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- From: ab795@ccn.cs.dal.ca (James Bet Tee)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Are these FW4.01 Bugs?
- Date: 20 Feb 1996 20:50:07 GMT
- Organization: Chebucto Community Net
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- I've been using FW4.01 a lot since it's been released and I've
- run into what MAY be bugs in the program. First of all, is there any way
- of REMOVING page numbers if you've applied them and then want to take
- them away? (decreasing the footnote space to 0 only overlaps the page
- numbers with text). Secondly, I use a lot of EPS clipart. Cropping the
- clipart provided with FW4 and then printing it to a postscript file is
- fine, but when I try to crop ANY other EPS clipart that didn't come with
- FW4, ie. those converted to EPS from other formats using CorelPhoto, the
- clipart appears fine on the Amiga screen and appears to be incorporated
- into the postscript file on printing, but when that file is dumped to a
- normal postscript printer, text wraps normally around the clipart, but in
- place of the clipart is simply a big white blank spot.
-
- Thirdly, I've noticed on a few occasions that when using the
- spell checker, a word will be highlighted and said 'incorrect spelling'
- (not repeated word or anything), but the suggestion will of course be the
- same word because the word IS spelled correctly (I can't remember which
- words this happened on, but if I run into them again, I'll keep track of it).
-
- Fourthly - I guess this is a limitation of the program? - but do
- the provided way to make 'Footnotes' really limit the length of the
- footnote one can use? I can't understand how hard it could be to allow
- REAL WYSIWYG footnotes ala the old WP4.1 even had. I also don't
- understand why people say that 'footnotes' aren't professional anyway - I
- mean, any REAL textbook will have them. Who would want to have to turn to
- a set of endnotes everytime (granted endnotes are acceptable for quote
- references though), when a simple endnote (ie. explaining the origination
- of a term) on the same page would be SO much more effective and less
- time-consuming for the reader.
-
- Fifthly, I think Arexx macros or selectable menu items should be
- provided so that the function keys can be linked to SuperScript and
- SubScript. These 2 in particular are only available in the Typesetting
- menu and the predefined buttons as far as I can tell...
-
- Glad to know tables will be in FW5. Keep up the good work.
-
-
- -James
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- James Tee _ // AMIGA University of Toronto
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