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From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: FullWrite Professional 1.0
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Date: 13 May 88 17:14:30 GMT
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In article <787@elxsi.UUCP> fisher@gazelle.UUCP (Chuck Fisher) writes:
>I attended the Apple Business Forum held in San
>Francisco last week and was able to button-hole
>the product manager for FullWrite.  I explained
>my displeasure and he told me that the paragraph
>spaceing problem was already fixed for the next
>release due out this fall. (The next two upgrades
>are free to original purchasers of FullWrite
>when it was of a more etheral nature.)  When
>complaining about table production, the product
>manager said that a "table module" like the
>"picture" and "sidebar" module will also appear
>this fall. I breathed a sigh of relief...

This is indeed good news; the paragraph spacing problem is the only thing
that is biting me about FullWrite right now.  Did they say whether it might
be setable in a custom style description?  Custom styles could need
something to allow different first-line indention, too.  I'll have to attend
the ABF in Seattle next month and track soem answers down...

The table module sounds REALLY neat.  Any bets on it working with "Full
Impact"?  Ashton-Tate tends to try getting their products inter-related.

I must say that this news is something of a relief.  After filling out
Ashton-Tate's registration information, I felt like I'd been dealing with
IBM; phone help costs $$ after the first 90 days, something I'm not used to
-- whatever complaints I have had about Microsoft products, their customer
support has always been top-hole, and free to boot.  I was wondering whether
they were going to be improving FullWrite as they went along; a Fall release
is much better than I had hoped for, and the "table module" shows that they
must be listening to their customers, and are making fairly major upgrades.
Of course, I'll fully believe it *when* I see it...

The basic editor sounds good, too -- something I can put in MultiFinder with
VersaTerm...

>Guess I'll have to wait until fall before I'm
>Fully satisfied however.  :-)

I doubt I'll ever be fully satisfied, but I'm definately happy now, and if
their Fall release contains these new features, I'll be contentedly sated.

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