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From: derek@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Derek J. LeLash)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Brief overview of FullWrite (Really solution to Word 3.01 problem)
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Date: 15 May 88 16:54:44 GMT
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In article <53134@sun.uucp> chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes
about FWP:

>The next release had better be faster, though. If I have one complaint, it's
>that FWP is so interested in keeping up the WYSIWYG interface that it starts
>getting in the way of the person using it. Some visual operations
>(especially graphics mixed with text) are quite fast, but a lot of text and
>scrolling operations are sludgy. And if you make some changes at the top of
>a document and then move to the end, everything grinds to a halt while it
>reformats. It almost makes you wish for Word's "repagination" option. (The
>key word there is almost). This had better be much faster next time, or else
>there needs to be some way to turn it off for us folks who prefer to worry
>about getting the text IN the document now, and making it pretty later.

Funny you should say that - I've been using a borrowed copy of FWP for awhile
now, until the local stores (or the College) get it, and while I love the
program's features, my deep dark secret is that I still physically type my
papers in MacWrite 4.6, and then import them into FWP to have some formatting
fun with them. I suspect that for most people, such a dualism makes sense;
the pre-release version of FWP is just too slow to keep up with me when I'm
struck by the digital muse :-), but the features it offers for manipulating
an existing body of text are excellent.
So there you are. Don't tell anyone.  :-)

Derek [28 days] LeLash '88

     Derek LeLash '88       |"People say I'm crazy, I got diamonds on the soles
 Derek.LeLash@Dartmouth.EDU |   of my shoes
----------------------------| Well, that's one way to lose these walking blues
 (Grand Old Senior at last) | Diamonds on the soles of my shoes."