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- From: prosper@tau.cs.fsu.edu (John Prosper)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: FinalWriter for Windows 95
- Date: 6 Mar 1996 05:45:59 GMT
- Organization: Florida State University Computer Science Department
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- Woody Williams <woody@softwood.com> wrote:
- >
- >> ...I don't care how many different
- >> kinds of graphics your *word* processor can handle if it can't handle simple
- >> typographic quotes and a decent em-dash.
- >>
- >
- >Yes, it bothers me as well that we do not have typographic quotes and
- >em-dash. The big problem is that we would have to modify the font data of
- >every font we have sold or bundle with FW. We simply do not have the
- >time. The quotes and em-dash are on a list of wishes, but their priority
- >is below that of features that the majority of users request and are
- >willing to pay for such as tables and RTF.
-
- You can obtain a typographic emdash by holding down the ALT
- key while pressing the N key. I don't see any way to handle
- typographic quotes, however.
-
- Whenever you can, it would be nice to see typographic single
- and double quotes. The lack of them lends a cheesy quality to
- an otherwise fine product.
-
- Perhaps you can bundle a special font package with special
- business, typographic, and commercial symbols. Some more font
- packs for mathematical or scientific data would be helpful, OR
- get together with Tomas Rockiki and Willy Langeveld to develop
- a method of importing Maple V Release III symbols and graphs
- into the Final Writer (Data, Calc) packages.
-
- What do you say, Wood?
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