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- From: dmeyer@tiac.net (David Meyer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Final Writer 5 Features
- Date: 12 Apr 1996 03:54:30 GMT
- Organization: The Internet Access Company
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- Digita International (info@digita.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- : woody@softwood.com (Woody Williams) wrote:
- :
- : >1. Added "Font" menu item that bypasses TypeSpecs requester and goes
- : >directly to the font requester.
- : >2. Added predefined zoom magnification levels to the "View" menu.
- : >4. Implemented "Next" style.
- : >5. Implemented "Based On" style.
- : >6. Increased maximum main styles from 16 to 256.
- : >9. Begin new documents using templates.
- : >11. AutoCorrect--correct as you type.
- : >15. tables
- : >17. ASL file requester option.
- : >22. RTF import/export--this is a full, useful implementation unlike...
- :
- : These features sound familiar, I wonder where I saw them before?
- :
- Numbers 1 & 2 were in Final Copy v1, perhaps that is where you
- saw it? Number 6 is an extention of something that's been around for a
- while - rather minor, given that few users rely on styles enough to ever
- worry about a maximum of 16. A couple of the others I've seen in MS Word
- 2.0, an old program. Most of them were on the wishlist created through
- this newsgroup.
- Since you brought up the "where have I seen this feature before"
- line, the review of WW5 in the May Amiga Shopper pointed out a number of
- new features in that product. ARexx support. Font effects such as
- Stretch, Oblique, Small Caps, Strike-Through, Double-Underline and
- Superscript. Where have we seen -those- -all- before? And, what happened
- to All Caps and Subscript? Or did Mr Sandiford simply neglect to mention
- them? Ahh! He -did- catch on to Hanging Indents and Bullets as button
- items. Seen those before, too, have we?
- Not trying to put your product down, just you. You pick out ten
- items from a 23-item list and claim to have been there first. Three of
- those ten are nothing you have any right to claim seniority with. Three
- more are nothing you originated. That leaves four. Against that, you just
- caught up - potentially - with ARexx, Font Effects (?), Hanging Indents,
- and Bullets. Sounds like a wash to me. Oh, what about the other dozen+
- improvements that you neglected to mention? Why not quit the business of
- making petty, inaccurate, misleading remarks and go back to improving
- your product? These comments just make you look like scum.
-