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From: timothy@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Mr. Timothy Bates)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Nisus questions: time to dump Microsoft? (LONG!)
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Date: 26 May 91 01:49:38 GMT
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In the thread which has been rating word against nisus, an important point has been missed as, i think, some comparative commentary may reveal.

I use fulwrite all day most days in the process of writing my Ph.D. Fullwrite has support for bibliographies built in - just select bibliography note and you are there, ever want to cite the same reference again, just recite it. No copying no mucking around it just works. At the end of the day, your reference list
is there at the end of the document.

FW has sidebars which can themselves contain any note that FW supports including other sidbars. Becasue of this if you want to place a graphic exactly on the page you can.

Moreover, FW supports abstract classification. You define classes like graph or figure and then selct a sidebar, picture, or chunk of text and FW will include the object into the list for that thing. From then on you can say see figure X on page yy and FW will make sure that the information is always correct no matter where your reference may be and no matter how you shuffle the classified objects around.

FW comes with tycho table maker for nothing and has a macDraw environment built in. You creat tabel in tycho (if you havn't got it, get it becasue it is 
the most intuitive table maker I have ever seen) and then paste it as a pict into a fullwrite sidbar for accurate placement. Text will flow around it if you 
want. I guess that FW will put publish and subscribe into tycho so that the placement and updating features between these programs are automated, but given 
that they have not done so yet, this can hardly be claimed as a feature.

The fullwrite spelling checker can search on any text attribute (replace all   bold capital T's with little Los Angeles 9pt q's) and the thesaurus is ok (like all the other WP's that user microlytics thesaurus).
I guess the list of things goes on, but fullwrite appears to have been left to  rot since the reviewers decided that nisus was their best bet to stop Word 
from controlling literature as we know it. 
Given that it is still possibel (I think) to get FW and ashton tates spreadsheet for less than $200 dollars, I think that FW must be the most underrated 
features leader in macintosh history - especially now that the system software capabilities and memory prices are low enough to support the many abilities 
FW conveys. Maybe John Skulley was right when he introduced fullwrite (when it was still owned by ann arbor I think) as the macintosh word processor of the 
future!

Cheers!
timothy@ccu1.aukuni.ak.nz