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From: hallett@positron.uucp (Jeff Hallett x5163	)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Is Fullwrite dead?
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Date: 29 Nov 89 20:46:22 GMT
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Reply-To: hallett@gemed.ge.com (Jeffrey A. Hallett (414) 548-5163)
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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?) ?

I use  FullWrite (on a MacII*,  otherwise it is a  pig - not unusable,
but annoying at times).  I used it to write my  thesis and didn't have
any problems; just one crash occurred.

Basically, I like FullWrite.  I  wish it had  a table environment like
Word 4.0 rather than  a drawing environment, but hey,  that's  ok.   I
like its bibliography system  and classifications.  There really isn't
much that it doesn't do that I want except for a few things:

1.  I  want  the ability to create   one long document out  of several
shorter ones.  The  TOC, indices,  biblographies, classifications, etc
must bridge the various pieces.

2.  The  bibliography system should be compatible  with  EndNote and I
should   be able to   "feed" the  bibliographic  listing  from a given
database.  Once  the entries are there, I  can refer  to them and have
them show up.

I would   very much like to  see  FullWrite grow  and  live.    It has
potential and I  haven't  experienced  the  font  problems (read  "ATM
incompatibility") that I have with Word 4.0.  I have both and use them
for  different  writing  tasks  - I must   say that FullWrite   is  my
technical writing environment of choice,  but  I use Word for  all  my
short-to-medium  writing  tasks and  reserve  MacWrite for  my quickie
stuff. 

So, I'm a software hog... shoot me. :^)


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