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