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Article #28384Re: Brief overview of FullWrite (Re
From: Pierce T. Wetter
Date: Sat, 21 May 1988 19:13
Date: Sat, 21 May 1988 19:13
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Well, I've been using FW for almost 20 minutes know and I've discovered a
few things.
1. This is the first WP for the mac to make FULL use of the mac interface
2. BUG: If you have a sidebar icon selected, then choose a command from
the sidebar menu, when you return to the document the icon will still
be selected but the menu will be gone.
3. FEATURE: You have to know the dimensions of your sidebar to begin with
in order to place it. Your can't size it to fit your text or picture
or whatever. I was converting my resume to FW from MSWORD. My resume
had two side-by-side paragrams (not supported as such in FW) for
my school and home addresses. These were a little less then a half
an inch thick, which is the lower limit for sidebar height.
Getting the paragraphs into the sidebar was easy, the hard part was
getting it to fit properly in my document. See, what I really want is
a little drag handle in the sidebar panel which changes the stuff
defined by the place command. I also want to be able to drag the
sidebar around in the page view.
Note that for most things, this isn't a problem as you can flow the
text around strangely shaped objects easily, its just in this case that
I have the problem because I have a long, thin, sidebar which I didn't
know the dimensions of.
4. I love it.
Pierce
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!oberon!cit-vax!tybalt.caltech.edu!wetter From: wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu (Pierce T. Wetter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Brief overview of FullWrite (Re Message-ID: <6630@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> Date: 21 May 88 19:13:43 GMT References: <8452@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <15200015@uxg.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu Reply-To: wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (Pierce T. Wetter) Organization: California Institute of Technology Lines: 31