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woody@softwood.com (Woody Williams) wrote:

> The following list is not in any order of importance.  Some features are
> minor while other are major.  This list contains everything we have done
> to Final Writer in Release 5.
> [...]

While some topics of the list sound important (like tables...;), I
still think that FW is far from being professional... sorry. :-(
While I'm hardly trying to write my dissertation with FW4, I had to
find out that it is nearly unusable for larger texts.

Here are the most important points of what I'm missing:

1)  It should be possible to link GFX-Objects (such as Pictures, Boxes, 
    TextObjs,...) to paragraphs, so they will move up/down when
    inserting text before them. [It is really a pain to move all the GFX
    in a 50+ page document by hand]

2)  The layout-options for Table of Contents, Bibliography etc. don't meet
    the requirements of scientific notations. 
    (Imagine a BIB looking like:

    [Author1 94]    Author: Title, .... 
                    ... following lines with hanging indent.
    [Author2 89]    ...)

    (...or a TOC looking like:
    
    1.    Introduction
    1.1     djflks dsjflk 
    2.    Background
    2.1     dölfj dsjflka ölkdj 
    2.1.1     jdfhh dhfkj dsjhf lhj
    2.1.2     jdhflkj dhfl aj 
    ...)

3)  There's still no automatic section numbering with customizable
    notation (e.g. "1.1.1" or "A.1.2"). Should be possible to set 
    numbering styles for sections independently. Numbers of sections/
    subsections should be changed automatically when new ones are
    inserted/deleted/moved.

4)  Footnotes are essential (but still missing).

5)  Should be selectable whether Endnotes appear at the end of
    sections or at the end of the doc.

6)  Why is printing of odd/even pages impossible when printing
    ALL sections (in FW 4.01 german, it's only selectable when printing
    single sections)??? (BUG?)

7)  The postscript-interpreter for EPS-GFX doesn't use contained
    preview-image-info (bitmaps). Rendering takes too long even on a
    040, esp. since it is sometimes rendered unnecessarily (e.g. when
    simply moving an EPS-GFX).

8)  Limitation of TextObjs to 37 chars is too short.

9)  Hyphenation: At least the german hyphenation-module often can't
    hyphenate longer words (e.g. "Aufgabenangemessenheit"). This
    would not matter if it would be possible to hyphenate manually.
    So one has to write "Aufgaben- <CR>angemessenheit", but if you
    insert/delete any text before that, the result is two separate
    words which won't be joined automatically.

I hardly doubt that FW5 will be worth the update fee (for me, of
course). While I still think that FW is still the best available 
Wordprocessor for the Ami (the best of two... ;), it is not worth
the fantasy price of ~250,- DM (that's what I paid for FW4).
I really hoped that SoftWood would finally wake up and make much 
more major improvements to FW5 (the improvements from FW1 to FW4
are a joke: three version numbers for minor changes, IMO). Much 
of the energy and money at Softwood seem to have flown to the 
Wind*ws-Port of FW. I really did not want *my* money to go that
way when I decided to *buy* your software: I wanted to support
one of the remaining sw-companies on the amiga and contribute 
to the creation of professional ami-soft.

Even on the PC-Platform I would get a more functional PRG for my 
money, e.g St*rWr*ter for OS*2.
(Unfortunately, I don't want a PeeCee... by now ;). 

Sorry for flaming, but I tried to be constructive at least. 

Greetings from a disappointed customer,
Carsten.

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