Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!ames!oliveb!sun!plaid!chuq From: chuq%plaid@Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop Subject: Re: Desktop Publishing and Suns Message-ID: <18404@sun.uucp> Date: Fri, 8-May-87 13:31:44 EDT Article-I.D.: sun.18404 Posted: Fri May 8 13:31:44 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 9-May-87 20:57:18 EDT Sender: news@sun.uucp Distribution: comp Lines: 47 Approved: desktop-request%plaid@sun.com Date: Thu, 7 May 87 11:52:51 PDT From: CPT Tullia I'm using Interleaf 2.5 on a Sun 3 and for the most part, I'm satisfied. However, it does have its shortcomings ... Granted, it does not use the native environment. But who's to say that Sun's mouse definitions are the best. For myself, I would hope for some consistent user interface. Perhaps I'm still a novice user but underlining, superscripts, and subscripts are difficult to accomplish in text mode. And displays when overlaying text on a graphics frame are not really WYSIWYG. The chart building facility is excellent, permitting a great deal of versatility, if one is willing to customize, although not necessary for most applications. Since many of the charts appear management-oriented, it's inability to import data for the charts may be forgiveable. Importing ASCII documents is also a bit disappointing. I find it annoying that I cannot get left margin alignment on subitems in a list -- I had always believed that leading spaces would maintain the same width from line to line. Interleaf may be market leader but I did not detect a difference between the functionality it had on a Sun 2 and that which I now have on the Sun 3. Like most applications, it does have its warts. But, Interleaf has provided a tool which is eminently usable -- especially if you like to mouse a lot. We do have a contingent which had previously used Interleaf and is now using Frame. They seem to prefer it and it uses the native environment. Thom Tullia tullia@sri-lewis.arpa ---------------------------------------- Submissions to: desktop%plaid@sun.com -OR- sun!plaid!desktop Administrivia to: desktop-request%plaid@sun.com -OR- sun!plaid@desktop-request Paths: {ihnp4,decwrl,hplabs,seismo,ucbvax}!sun Chuq Von Rospach chuq@sun.COM [I don't read flames] There is no statute of limitations on stupidity