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dmeyer@tiac.net (David Meyer) wrote:
>Digita International (info@digita.demon.co.uk) wrote:
>: woody@softwood.com (Woody Williams) wrote:
>: 
>: >1.  Added "Font" menu item that bypasses TypeSpecs requester and goes
>: >directly to the font requester.
>: >2.  Added predefined zoom magnification levels to the "View" menu.

I`m sure these were in FW 1-3... 

>: >4.  Implemented "Next" style.
>: >5.  Implemented "Based On" style.
>: >6.  Increased maximum main styles from 16 to 256.
>: >9.  Begin new documents using templates.
>: >11. AutoCorrect--correct as you type.
>: >15. tables

The Digita implementation, while nice, isn`t quite what I expect from tables,
escpecially when you look at the implementation in Word.

>: >17. ASL file requester option.
>: >22. RTF import/export--this is a full, useful implementation unlike...

This bit really makes me laugh about WW3.1 - the RTF feature wasn`t really that
useful to me. Either Word and/or WW3.1 were screwing up the file format making
the idea useless.

>: 
>: These features sound familiar, I wonder where I saw them before?
>: 
>	Numbers 1 & 2 were in Final Copy v1, perhaps that is where you 
>saw it? Number 6 is an extention of something that's been around for a 
>while - rather minor, given that few users rely on styles enough to ever 
>worry about a maximum of 16. A couple of the others I've seen in MS Word 
>2.0, an old program. Most of them were on the wishlist created through 
>this newsgroup. 

Quite true. A lot of features added to FW and indeed WW are still playing
catchup when compared with a program like Word.

>	Since you brought up the "where have I seen this feature before" 
>line, the review of WW5 in the May Amiga Shopper pointed out a number of 
>new features in that product. ARexx support. Font effects such as 
>Stretch, Oblique, Small Caps, Strike-Through, Double-Underline and 
>Superscript. Where have we seen -those- -all- before? And, what happened 
>to All Caps and Subscript? Or did Mr Sandiford simply neglect to mention 
>them? Ahh! He -did- catch on to Hanging Indents and Bullets as button 
>items. Seen those before, too, have we?
>	Not trying to put your product down, just you. You pick out ten 
>items from a 23-item list and claim to have been there first. Three of 
>those ten are nothing you have any right to claim seniority with. Three 
>more are nothing you originated. That leaves four. Against that, you just 
>caught up - potentially - with ARexx, Font Effects (?), Hanging Indents, 
>and Bullets. Sounds like a wash to me. Oh, what about the other dozen+ 
>improvements that you neglected to mention? Why not quit the business of 
>making petty, inaccurate, misleading remarks and go back to improving 
>your product? These comments just make you look like scum.

My thoughts exactly. And add the fact that I`ve not really used WW3.1 since I
bought it for the following reasons:

Italics are screwed. I nicked the Windows TrueType ttf files (e.g. Arial, Arial
Bold, Arial Bold_Italic, Arial Italic) and tried them in Wordworth 3.1 -
pressing the "I" button to select italic didn`t make the program select the
existing italic version of Arial, it just obliqued the text mathematically
(which doesn`t look nice next to a proper italic font). It`s much worse using
Times New Roman. What`s worse was while using something like Times New Roman
Italic, if I pressed the "I" button, the text was *further obliqued*!

Then printing. I have a Canon Bubblejet and HP 4MP Postscript printer. When I
start a document, I have to pick what printer I`m going to use then change the
printer setup accordingly. I then lose access to most of my fonts. If I wish to
make a switch half-way through I`m screwed becuase the text will reformat in a
different font. With Finalwriter, I don`t have to worry about this at all.

I know a lot of the blame goes down to using the Compugraphic font format, but
they could have at least added an option to use Propage .psfont definitions -
which work quite well. 

By using NimbusQ (Adobe Type 1) and proper fonts for italics and bold, etc,
Finalwriter avoided the need to faff about with ps and preferences printers,
got good looking typefaces (not mathematical adjustments) and consequently, I
use FW exclusively for anything of importance and WW3.1 is a white elephant (I
use it for the odd one shot experiment).