Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!bbn!husc6!amcad!stech!sysop From: sysop@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Interleaf Publisher Message-ID: <907@stech.UUCP> Date: 9 Feb 89 12:48:29 GMT References: Organization: Scholastech, Inc., Waltham, Mass. Lines: 53 in article , aberg@math.rutgers.edu (Hans Aberg) says: > Posted: Thu Feb 2 13:21:43 1989 > > Your article makes me curious. > > I use FullWrite for typing mathematics. I am not so interested in a > final typesetting quality, but I am interested enhanced variations > of FullWrites formatting capabilities: Better bibliography, more > efficient ways to paste in formulas. > > Also, FullWrite does not come with technical support, except for > the first initial 90 days. > > Do you have an idea what Interleaf could do for me, and others > interested in technical typesetting. > Interleaf Publisher may not, then, be the correct product. It is really intended for very long documents (e.g., books) and has a lot of features to support books, like building tables of contents and indexes across multiple document files. It will also build charts (i.e., graphs). Though it has built in object-oriented and bit-mapped graphics, it has no special provisions for equations and formulas. Interleaf, because it is a port from Apollo and Sun implementations, doesn't use the Mac clipboad; it uses its own. If you want to import something, you first put it in a file Interleaf can use (e.g., MacWrite, MacDraw, MacPaint) and then, from within the Interleaf environment, copy it to Interleaf's clipboard. Desk accessories are, however, accessible (just anything that gets copied from a desk accessory to the Mac clipboard can't be used by Interleaf). People tell me that the best WP for equations is Word, though Word lacks many of the features that you like about FW, the formatting (bibliographies, etc.) Interleaf is a lot of money ($2495 retail; $2120 street price) and I suspect that you might be happier if you bought one of the desk accessories that is designed to layout equations and formulas and brought your equations into FW via the clipboard. If you haven't encountered any of FW's major bugs (e.g., disappearing formatting below sidebars, corrupted documents that bomb when you try to open them), then the DA route may be your best bet. Any comments from netland out there? (By the way, I'm still very, very, very pleased with Interleaf.) Jan Harrington, sysop Scholastech Telecommunications UUCP: husc6!stech!sysop or allegra!stech!sysop ******************************************************************************** Miscellaneous profundity: "No matter where you go, there you are." Buckaroo Banzai ********************************************************************************