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From: thomas@gmdzi.UUCP (Thomas Gordon)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: SoftQuad's Author/Editor
Message-ID: <1205@gmdzi.UUCP>
Date: 14 Aug 89 09:37:42 GMT
Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, F. R. Germany
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Hello!

Is someone from SoftQuad or a SoftQuad customer out there listening?
We have the Author/Editor sgml editor for Macintoshes.  We did not
buy directly from SoftQuad but from their European distributer, who
has not sent us any information about updates or improvements.  We
like Author/Editor very much, but it would be nice if there were
more formatting abilities in the Mac WYSIWYG environment.  (We translate
to TeX usually, but most of our users would also like to have more
control over layout for drafts or whatever without having to get 
involved with the details of TeX.   In other words, we want our cake
and eat it too, using Author/Editor as a kind of MS-Word but still being
able to export to SGML and then to TeX or nroff/troff when appropriate.

Some enhancments we would like to see for the Macintosh layout facilities
of Author/Editor, in order of importance:

1) Support for graphics  (MacDraw, MacPaint, etc.)
2) Layout control dependent on attribute values and context.
3) More page layout alternatives.  e.g. multiple columns, footnotes
4) Automatic numbering of list items, chapters, etc.
5) Just about every thing you can think of.

Can anyone tell us what SoftQuad is up with their Author/Editor
product?   We would also be interested in general information about
other SoftQuad sgml and Unix software.

Thanks you,

Tom Gordon
thomas@gmdzi.uucp

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