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- From: dmeyer@tiac.net (David Meyer)
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- Subject: Re: Final Writer Outline Mode
- Date: 29 Feb 1996 17:55:23 GMT
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- William F. Maddock (wmaddock@icon-stl.net) wrote:
- :
- : Speaking of the manual, I have a couple of suggestions:
- :
- : 1 If Softwood were to add support for the Adobe Standard
- : Roman Character Set, they could use their own software
- : to do the manual. Definitely a strong advertising point.
- : This need not go beyond the capability to use all 250 or
- : so characters normally already present in postscript fonts.
- : Currently, this can not be done because they stubbornly
- : cling to the Amiga Character Set, which is terribly lacking
- : in several areas. Proper typographic quotation marks is just
- : one example.
- :
- I _do_ miss "typographic quotation marks", both in FW and in MS Word. I'm
- sure the latter has them available, but have no idea how to access them.
- I've never seen the manual, there may be a reference there.
-
- The lack of bi-directional quotation marks is less of a problem for me
- than the reduced character sets often found in those PD postscript fonts.
- No lower case? No numbers? Minimal, or no, punctuation/special
- characters? Such fonts seldom, if ever, find a home on my hard drive. A
- word processor with the font-manipulation capabilities of Final Writer
- needs a complete character set to work with - within the Amiga Character
- Set limits, at least. Designs where the lower case is just a reduced
- upper case do not count - the program can create that effect by itself.
- Fake italics do not count - the program can fake them. Ditto with
- "narrow" or "wide/bold" varietions. The NimbusQ sets usually meet this
- standard. Decoratives, like Princeton, Plaza Decorative, Slipstream,
- Superstar and Stencil do not. I don't recall a non-decorative that is
- significantly lacking in this respect - though several lack a "bullet".
-
- The limitation imposed on us by the Amiga Character Set is usually more
- annoying than crippling. Many postscript fonts are crippled.
-