Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!caen!uwm.edu!bionet!agate!ucbvax!van-bc!ubc-cs!news.UVic.CA!sirius!hedstrom From: hedstrom@sirius.UVic.CA (Brad Hedstrom) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Just My Opinion: MS Word 4.0 vs. Nisus Message-ID: Date: 10 Apr 91 20:47:21 GMT References: <4338@ryn.mro4.dec.com> Sender: news@sol.UVic.CA Distribution: na Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada Lines: 29 In-Reply-To: long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com's message of 10 Apr 91 16:45:45 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: jacob.uvic.ca In article <4338@ryn.mro4.dec.com> long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com (Rich Long) writes: > In article , hedstrom@sirius.UVic.CA (Brad Hedstrom) writes... >>I just wanted to add one small note to Dave's evaluation: Nisus can >>read Word 3 and Word 4 documents as long as they haven't been "fast" > Yes, but--in the demo at least--table formatting was not preserved. It would > have been nice if Nisus had done something reasonable. You're right, it doesn't (I just tried it). I'm assuming that to preserve the Word table, Nisus would have had to implement Word's Table functionality (probably using the same data structures). Do I smell some lawyers and maybe a bit of court action here? It does seem to be the rage. Who's to say? I would imagine that since Word's tables aren't PICTs (one can't copy and past them except as text, all formatting is lost), they are proprietary data structures that Microsoft isn't too keen on divulging to its competitors. Just a supposition... -- ___________________________________________________________________________ Brad Hedstrom Electrical and Computer Engineering Department University of Victoria Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Internet: hedstrom@sirius.UVic.CA (a.k.a. Brazil North) UUCP: ...!{uw-beaver,ubc-visions,ubc-cs}!sirius.UVic.CA!hedstrom "A no smoking section in a restaurant is as effective as a no chlorine section in a swimming pool."