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From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Desktop Publishing/Technical Report Software
Message-ID: <1990Nov18.014103.20227@pegasus.com>
Date: 18 Nov 90 01:41:03 GMT
References: <1340@mustang.mst6.lanl.gov> <1990Nov10.195437.8543@ircam.ircam.fr>
Organization: Pegasus,  Honolulu
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>Interleaf -- a very good DP package for technical stuff, is available under
>Ultrix and X11.  You should check it.
>
>I used to use it on Suns (SunOS) and got to test it under Ultrix 3.0 on DEC3100.
>

Unless it's changed since I evaluated it (about a year ago, on a Sun),
Interleaf has got one of the most god-awful user interfaces known to man.

Menued to death (six or eight deep, maybe more), poorly organized, and
very error-prone.  I tested it on a medium size project and had someone
else do the same to get two opinions.  We both hated it.  Framemaker
was a god-send after that.

Interleaf makes no attempt to fit into the surrounding window system,
its interface works in a completely different, alien way.


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Richard Foulk		richard@pegasus.com
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Richard Foulk		richard@pegasus.com