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From: barek@lake.scar.toronto.edu (William Barek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Why?
Message-ID: <120@lake.scar.toronto.edu>
Date: 27 Mar 91 14:36:50 GMT
Reply-To: barek@lake.scar.toronto.edu (William Barek)
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Organization: Scarborough Campus, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
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Why?
Is it a compaint ? Perhaps. When HC 2.0 came out I was excited, and glad
that I waited with a development of some teaching stacks. After the initial
excitement over the improvements there are some basic omitions that are
producing an impulse to throw the whole thing out.
   I could perhaps live without full implementation of colour, however it
   is sadening to see other packages and systems implementing it.

   What I really found frustrating is the following:

   In a text field you can't produce superscript or subscript, so acadenic
   stacks for chemistry is out. Really smart omision. How much overhead
   there could be to ad it? It is comendable that HC 2.0 with all the
   improvements hasn't increased in size too much but that should not be a
   reason for not including it. Usefulness should be the driving force !
   Also, limitation of 30,000 characters in a field is frustrating and not
   having ruler in the text field just tops it.

   Secondly, I could not belive that sorting is almost useless (please no
   flames). Why. Have you ever tried to sort 2 fields ( one text, other
   numeric) or lines in a field that have two columns one is text other is
   numeric). To me it is a very basic operation, why this was missed or am
   I missing something?


   Now,dear neters, have anyone got some XC or XF's that will provide these
   functionalities. Please respond on net or directly to:

   barek@bluffs.scar.utoronto.ca       Many thanks