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From: jts@siemens.UUCP (Jim Sasaki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Interleaf on the Mac
Message-ID: <545@siemens.UUCP>
Date: 4 May 88 14:28:31 GMT
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Reply-To: jts%siemens.com@princeton.edu (Jim Sasaki)
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Organization: Siemens Research and Technology Labs, Princeton, NJ
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> From SDL...
> .... Everything from the Sun is there except the eqn package ....
>
> Editor's note: Interleaf apparently has plans to port eqn in the future....

Very interesting.  We seem to have a version of Sun Interleaf that doesn't have
eqn. (Either that, or it's buried so deep in the documentation that no one has
found it.)  People told me there is no way to get non-numeric subscripts with
our Interleaf.  Perhaps we need some sort of upgrade.

The only personal experience I have with Interleaf was for a couple of hours;
I can't say I enjoyed them.  Footnotes were painful: I had to manually place
the footnote mark (e.g., the dagger) at the bottom of the page, I had to
manually break the footnote text at the end of each line, and the only way to
correct a line was to erase it and retype it.  They nested pull-right menus too
deeply (my personal opinion) -- to change the font size, you had to go 3? 4? 5?
levels down.

I have no experience with Mac Interleaf, so none of the above is necessarily
relevant.

    -- Jim Sasaki (jts%siemens.com@princeton.edu)

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Any opinions above are my own, and not necessarily those of Siemens RTL, for
whom I consult.