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- From: harold@wam.umd.edu (James B. Harold)
- Subject: Re: ndw2.0, amipro3.0, wp5.1win
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.144452.968@wam.umd.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 14:44:52 GMT
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- In article <ysyywzr@rpi.edu> gilem@aix02.ecs.rpi.edu (Michael R. Gile) writes:
- >
- <...>
- >AmiPro 3.0:
- > I have been using AmiPro 2.0 now for about a year,
- >even though I was traditionally a wp dos user. I was
- >fed up with waiting for wp win, and decided a year ago
- >to go with ami pro. Although satisfied in general,
- >especially with the quality of importing wp files, I am
- >disappointed with the product support (none), and the
- >stupidity of the programmers who decided to repaint
- >the screen all the time. <....>
-
- This is the second negative comment about Ami product support
- I've noticed, so I thought I'd put in my $0.02. Depending
- on what you call product support, my experience with them
- has been pretty good. I've had a couple of unusual problems
- with AmiPro, and Lotus tech support has been pretty good
- about call backs, follow-ups, etc. When they couldn't
- duplicate a bug, I uploaded a sample file to their BBS
- and they worked with it. So in that respect I'm reasonably
- pleased.
-
- However (*flame on*) that doesn't forgive their failure to
- fix the glaring problems in the equation editor. I am
- astounded that well known bugs (such as the double-spacing
- problem with the equations) apparently still exist in version 3.0.
- Lotus has implemented a reasonably good equation editor,
- then rendered it virtually useless for serious work by,
- for instance, not allowing you to cut and paste frames
- within paragraphs. I realize that equation editing isn't
- a priority with the mainstream WP developers. But to
- write the darn thing and then not fix the bugs is annoying
- in the extreme. (*flame off*)
-
- Sigh. I should have learned Tex in the first place, I suppose.
- --
-
- James Harold "There is always an easy solution to
- harold@wam.umd.edu every human problem -- neat, plausible,
- and wrong." -- H. L. Mencken
-