Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!enea!tut!santra!jmunkki
From: jmunkki@santra.UUCP (Juri Munkki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: FullWrite (Was: Dissertation on a MAC vs UNIX)
Message-ID: <11823@santra.UUCP>
Date: 9 Apr 88 20:40:38 GMT
References: <2328@uvacs.CS.VIRGINIA.EDU> <1290@PT.CS.CMU.EDU>
Reply-To: jmunkki@santra.UUCP (Juri Munkki)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
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Keywords: bibliographies, index(es), table of contents,
Summary: Will FullWrite be too late and too expensive?

In article <1290@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> phd@SPEECH1.CS.CMU.EDU (Paul Dietz) writes:
>I'm surviving with it so far, but it's not exactly my "dream word
>processor". Judging by the frequency of these querries, when, oh when
>is somebody going to make a cheap, decent, technical word processor?????

I currently recommend the combination of FullWrite, Expressionist and
QuicKeys to people who have time to wait for FullWrite to become available.
To others, I sell MS-Word with expressionist (and quickeys). I've used Word
for some time now, but I'm still learning new things about it. This is the
only real problem with it. Word has a lot of features, but the are too hard
to find and use for the average user (I do ok though...).

Expressionist is ok to those who accept the quality it produces. You can
do almost anything, but some stuff requires manual fixing (which is fortunately
easy). QuicKeys is there because eventually every user becomes a power user
and may want to automatize the sequence of copying an expression, choosing
something and pasting it there. QuicKeys also helps me use create the footnote,
index and table of contents entries in FullWrite.

The worst problem with FullWrite is that it's not available. I contacted
Ashton Tate for a site license for our university, but they forwarded the
request to a local company that told us that they can't sell a site license.
We may have to forget using FullWrite, if we can't sell it to our customers
before summer. I only have the demo version (with a few self-made patches to
remove the "FullWrite Demo" text from printouts. :-)

	Juri Munkki
	jmunkki@santra.hut.fi	jmunkki@fingate.bitnet	lk-jmu@finhut.bitnet

	Helsinki University of Technology Computing Centre
	Microcomputing Support Centre
	National Microcomputer Software Centre for Finnish Universities

	Otakaari 1, Y250A
	02150 Espoo, Finland

Disclaimer:	The above opinions are mine and may change without notice :-)