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From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Yet Another FullWrite Review
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Date: 12 Jun 88 18:59:40 GMT
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In article <10330007@eecs.nwu.edu> jln@eecs.nwu.edu (John Norstad) writes:
>I recall that someone reported a problem with the Save As format "text only
>with line breaks".  Most lines are improperly indented one or more columns.
>I've noticed this problem too.  In addition, if automatic hyphenation is
>enabled, and if FullWrite decides to hyphenate (which it often does), the
>hyphenations are removed when the text is saved in this format.  For example,
>if line 12 ends with "foot-" and line 13 starts with "notes are placed", when
>you save the file line 12 will end with "footnotes" and line 13 will start
>with "are placed".  This screws up the right margin.  These bugs are annoying,
>because I'd very much like to use FullWrite to prepare network mail, postings
>like this one, and other files destined for uploading and consumption on a
>mainframe or mini.  In the case of this posting I'm using FullWrite anyway,
>with hyphenation disabled, but I'll have to use an editor to get rid of the
>extra leading blanks on lines before I post it.  Yuk!

A noted bug, which I assume will be fixed in the next version (I mean,
really -- how tough can it be to fix it?).  In the meantime, let me
recommend McSink DA for getting stuff into the "right format" for Usenet or
your local BBS.

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