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From: egv@aicchi.UUCP (Vann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: FullWrite Frustrations
Message-ID: <1005@aicchi.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jan 88 01:29:59 GMT
Organization: Analysts International Corp; Chicago Branch
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Jeff, thanks so very much for responding to the comments I made concerning
FullWrite Professional. I like an awful lot of others (including yourself)
are anxious to see this product become a hit. I only hope that the folks
at Ann Arbor can catch something of the dialogue being conducted in this
forum at put our worthwhile suggestions to good use.

Let me respond with a few challenges:

        - First, I continue to believe that the issue of the side bar
          will give many a hearty word processing veteran a moments
          pause. The concept will prove to be 'new' and its application
          for doing things such as running three columns on a page begun
          in two column mode will take some time to envision. It appears
          however that you have more than a headstart on the field.
          
          Having come out of a typesetting background, I was at least
          familar with the term. It however took a bit of 'supposin' to
          allow myself to understand sidebars as another name for things
          like endnotes, footnotes, posted notes, etc.
          
          Acutally, this is a point that really can't be argued, on the
          experiences of hundreds of people will bear our either of our
          theses, or perhaps neither.
          
        - Secondly, I must have been rather vague in my explanation of
          what I intended when speaking of unbalanced three (or more) 
          column documents, being 'trivial' in Word.
          
          Let me begin by stating that I had in mind a TABLE that I had
          created usig the side-by-side column method. Each column was
          defined with a style sheet. In each style sheet I would specify
          the left and right margins of the column, its type characteris-
          tics, declare each to be a side-by-side paragraph and indicate
          if and where vertical rules are to be printed.
          
          The last thing you do is indicate that each columns style sheet
          is to be followed by the next column's style sheet, ending with
          the last column referencing the first.
          
          It's a clever way of doing things, which was shown to me by a
          colleague. It works well and does NOT require using the PREVIEW
          screen as you mentioned in order to determine alignment.
          
        - In answer to your question about the EPSF document being pasted
          into a sidebar, I don't know as yet. But I will try this and
          report to you later.
          
        - The slowness, that I found was NOT in the scrolling of the
          drawing once as it appeared on the logical page. But working
          with it in a open drawing window, is where the slowness results.
          I may have mentioned that you should always paste your images
          into the sidebar only when you have no drawing window open. This
          works best and is fast. In other words, DO NOT use the NEW PICT
          function (or whatever its called) just open a sidebar and paste
          in your graphic immediately. You do not and should not open a
          drawing window, unless you have time to burn.
          
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				Eric Geoffrey Vann
				Analysts International (Chicago Branch)
				(312) 882-4673
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