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From: chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: FullWrite Professional Question
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Date: 25 Jul 88 20:32:10 GMT
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>	This weekend, I finally got around to playing with the *demo* version
>semi-seriously. 

Any similarity between the demo program and the final release by Ashton-Tate
is coincidental. There are LOTS of differences and performance differences.

> Impressive!  I want it!  Unfortunately, I found that a one
>column, page-and-a-half document (about 12K), with 5 sidebars of drop caps,
>made the response time unlivable.

It's not perfect, but a lot better under the real release. I'm running on
a 1Meg partition under multifinder, too.

The next release (currently scheduled for fall, in theory) is supposed to
deal primarily with performance issues.

>Does anyone actually
>use the real version for serious stuff on an SE, and is it usable?  I really
>want FW, but there is a difference between being slow and being unusable!

Since FullWrite came out, I've used Microsoft word, literally, three times.
I wouldn't go back.

Whatever you do, don't judge the released version of Fullwrite from the
demo. They're very different programs.

>Assuming the release version is usable, can anyone tell me how to make
>	it do a hanging indent paragraph (like this one)?

Bring up a ruler, slide the margin limit to the right, then slide the first
line limit (the lower half of the margin limit) back to the left. 

>	Finally, how good (or bad) are the spell checker and thesaurus, and how
>well integrated are they?

I much prefer the FWP spellchecker to the Word one. I don't use the
thesaurus much, but when I do, it seems to work well.


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Chuq Von Rospach			chuq@sun.COM		Delphi: CHUQ

I don't work for no 'Toon!