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From: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: New MS-Word ?
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Date: 20 Aug 90 23:41:00 GMT
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Nf-From: m.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies    Aug 20 18:41:00 1990


Does anyone know when microsoft will release a new macintosh version
of MS-Word?  I'd particularly like to see them solve some of the
following problems:

(1) italics & subscripts confuse the justification algorithm when
    fractional widths are turned on.  The left-hand margin is always
    ragged.  Also, overstrikes SERIOUSLY confuse the algorithm
    (leaving a big gap in the middle of a line, right after the 
    overstrike.)

(2) mathematics sizing & positioning (particularly summations) could 
    be a lot better.  We need support for overbars.

(3) Some kind of support for automatic numbering (of figures, 
    equations, sections, theorems, corollaries, etc. etc. etc.)
    is desperately needed!

I hope microsoft will address these problems in MS-Word 5.0.


Don W. Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois
1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801      
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