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- From: galdor@papa.north.de (Carsten Labinsky)
- Subject: Re: Final Writer 5 Features
- Date: 11 Apr 1996 12:36:36 +0200
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- woody@softwood.com (Woody Williams) wrote:
-
- > The following list is not in any order of importance. Some features are
- > minor while other are major. This list contains everything we have done
- > to Final Writer in Release 5.
- > [...]
-
- While some topics of the list sound important (like tables...;), I
- still think that FW is far from being professional... sorry. :-(
- While I'm hardly trying to write my dissertation with FW4, I had to
- find out that it is nearly unusable for larger texts.
-
- Here are the most important points of what I'm missing:
-
- 1) It should be possible to link GFX-Objects (such as Pictures, Boxes,
- TextObjs,...) to paragraphs, so they will move up/down when
- inserting text before them. [It is really a pain to move all the GFX
- in a 50+ page document by hand]
-
- 2) The layout-options for Table of Contents, Bibliography etc. don't meet
- the requirements of scientific notations.
- (Imagine a BIB looking like:
-
- [Author1 94] Author: Title, ....
- ... following lines with hanging indent.
- [Author2 89] ...)
-
- (...or a TOC looking like:
-
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1 djflks dsjflk
- 2. Background
- 2.1 d÷lfj dsjflka ÷lkdj
- 2.1.1 jdfhh dhfkj dsjhf lhj
- 2.1.2 jdhflkj dhfl aj
- ...)
-
- 3) There's still no automatic section numbering with customizable
- notation (e.g. "1.1.1" or "A.1.2"). Should be possible to set
- numbering styles for sections independently. Numbers of sections/
- subsections should be changed automatically when new ones are
- inserted/deleted/moved.
-
- 4) Footnotes are essential (but still missing).
-
- 5) Should be selectable whether Endnotes appear at the end of
- sections or at the end of the doc.
-
- 6) Why is printing of odd/even pages impossible when printing
- ALL sections (in FW 4.01 german, it's only selectable when printing
- single sections)??? (BUG?)
-
- 7) The postscript-interpreter for EPS-GFX doesn't use contained
- preview-image-info (bitmaps). Rendering takes too long even on a
- 040, esp. since it is sometimes rendered unnecessarily (e.g. when
- simply moving an EPS-GFX).
-
- 8) Limitation of TextObjs to 37 chars is too short.
-
- 9) Hyphenation: At least the german hyphenation-module often can't
- hyphenate longer words (e.g. "Aufgabenangemessenheit"). This
- would not matter if it would be possible to hyphenate manually.
- So one has to write "Aufgaben- <CR>angemessenheit", but if you
- insert/delete any text before that, the result is two separate
- words which won't be joined automatically.
-
- I hardly doubt that FW5 will be worth the update fee (for me, of
- course). While I still think that FW is still the best available
- Wordprocessor for the Ami (the best of two... ;), it is not worth
- the fantasy price of ~250,- DM (that's what I paid for FW4).
- I really hoped that SoftWood would finally wake up and make much
- more major improvements to FW5 (the improvements from FW1 to FW4
- are a joke: three version numbers for minor changes, IMO). Much
- of the energy and money at Softwood seem to have flown to the
- Wind*ws-Port of FW. I really did not want *my* money to go that
- way when I decided to *buy* your software: I wanted to support
- one of the remaining sw-companies on the amiga and contribute
- to the creation of professional ami-soft.
-
- Even on the PC-Platform I would get a more functional PRG for my
- money, e.g St*rWr*ter for OS*2.
- (Unfortunately, I don't want a PeeCee... by now ;).
-
- Sorry for flaming, but I tried to be constructive at least.
-
- Greetings from a disappointed customer,
- Carsten.
-
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