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Well, I upgraded to Wordworth 5 from 3.1. I have to say, it is very
disappointing. A few of my gripes:

The manual
A much thinner manual than before but with nice, if a little
"in-your-face" design. The ordering and train of thought of some
sections is a little odd. I can't believe they can have one page (half
of which is diagrams) on automatic index creation and a three and a half
page tutuorial on bulleted lists.

Style sheets
Quite nice. The ability to have substyles (bold, italic etc.) of a style
is something that FW4 misses (FW5 has it, I think). I think "Drag and
drop" style sheets will be the non-feature of 96. Pointless. The method
of altering the "Modify" field in the Style Sheet requester is odd -
that surely shouldn't be a list gadget...

Font support
TrueType, Intellifont and Type 1 are much appreciated. Excellent
on-screen quality. Very poor PostScript integration and support
unfortunately. The use of bullet compatible .otag files is nice, but
there is NO point if the installer program doesn't enter the minimum
fields for them to work with diskfont.library. I think we would all like
TrueTypes on Workbench.

Stability
Crashes if I have run WW3.1 before it. Otherwise, stable.

Preference
FW still fits in better with my way of working. Looking forward to FW5.

The reviews
The Future magazines have loved Wordworth 5 and SE. They have mentioned
none of its flaws. Larry Hickmott wrote and designed the WW5 manual.
Larry Hickmott writes for Amiga Shopper and Format. Coincidence I'm
sure.

Dave
-- 
       "The tangled web of worries around speech shows how little 
            people know about it" - Professor Jean Aitchison

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