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From: jim@calvin.EE.CORNELL.EDU (Jim Providakes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Is Fullwrite dead?
Message-ID: <2390@calvin.EE.CORNELL.EDU>
Date: 28 Nov 89 14:14:55 GMT
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In article <3612@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu> AGRAWAL@rcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rajiv Agrawal) writes:
>Hi,
>   Judging from the number of responses (precisely zero) on Fullwrite bugs, am
>I to assume that nobody is using Fullwrite?  In fact, the bugs are not there
>when I run the program under UniFinder.  I like MS Word 4, but I still don't
>think it is adequate for thesis writing.  Any comments?  Is Ashton-Tate ever
>going to upgrade Fullwrite (or are they waiting for System 7.0?) ?
>
>Rajiv.
>

I have been using FullWrite V1.1 for about 6 months in writing my thesis.  I 
don't believe FullWrite is dead.  I spoke to the FullWrite support folks and 
the woman told me that they are currently working on V2.0.  In fact there was 
a feature dealing with citations that I thought would be very useful to 
implement in FullWrite and she told me to write up my suggestion and send it 
in to them.  I have used both Word 4.0 and WordPerfect 1.0.2 (yes I do own
them) and decided to use FullWrite.  I would have probably stayed with 
WordPerfect except that it is still too buggy (the screen updates are still
strange, and there are the program still crashes sometimes).  My main reason
for using FullWrite was its ability to easily slide graphics (ie, equations)
up or down on a line using simple key strokes (command-shift + or -). If 
V2.0 of FullWrite improves the implementation for citations then I think it
will be a real nice word processing program for people who write technical
document (lots of equations).  One of the biggest pains is when you insert or
delete an equation (or figure, or table), you have to scan through the 
document and change all of the reference numbers.  Programs like TeX or LaTeX
have wonderful methods of keeping track of citations in a document.  The 
other word processing programs (e.g. Word and WordPerfect) don't seem to 
address this problem.

If only I can get EndNote to port their bibliography program over to FullWrite
and then I would really have it made.