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Carsten Labinsky (galdor@papa.north.de) wrote:
: 
: 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.

	Please define "professional". 
	FW, like most WYSIWYG WP/DTP packages, becomes a little clumsy when 
used for larger documents. Particularly when you try to edit the earlier 
part of a large document. This is somewhat true of any editor with even 
the most minimal page formating features, like word wrap or page break, 
but the WYSIWYG programs suffer more and those with a multitude of 
features suffer even more. Using Sections helps - the program sees 
multiple, shorter, virtual documents. 

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: 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). 

	An upgrade fee of DM250? What's a DM worth these days? 
	There are three types of changes from FW4 to FW5. Some are 
roll-backs to an FW3-style implimentation. Some are the sort of tweaks 
that we saw many of in FW2-FW4. Some are major enhancements. There are at 
least as many major enhancements here as there were between FW1 and FW4. 
IMHO. And don't think for a minute that an enhancement that is not major 
is not significant. Those roll-backs most assuredly are significant.

: 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.

	You have misunderstood the situation with FW'95.

: Even on the PC-Platform I would get a more functional PRG for my 
: money, e.g St*rWr*ter for OS*2.

	I haven't seen the program you mention. Major WPs for the PC are 
selling for well over US100 - unless bundled in much more expensive 
packages. FW costs much less. -Upgrades- cost nearly US100. You may say 
they offer more for the price. I would counter with the observation that 
most of that "more" consists of features most people would never think of 
using. 
	Let's wait until May 10th before we start our FW6 wish lists. Get 
FW5 in our hands first before we start pleading for more. Woody & crew 
were pretty good about the FW5 lists posted here.