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Article #42156Re: MS Word 4.0: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
From: Ronald A. Fischer
Date: Tue, 09 May 1989 00:35
Date: Tue, 09 May 1989 00:35
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Tables, as in the convenient implementation seen in MS Word 4.0, were done similarly in Viewpoint from Xerox and I believe in the predecessor Star. Imagine what adding a (partial) syntactic parser to your english documents could do, change format of lists from inline with commas to bullets automagically, check plurality of sentences, etc. There's still plenty of room for real improvement instead of increasingly large feature lists. Sadly, the hardware manufacturers aren't quite proviing the right "OS level" (eh hem) toolkits to build applications. Apple has a start with MacApp. (ron)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!lll-winken!arisia!fischer From: fischer@arisia.Xerox.COM (Ronald A. Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: MS Word 4.0: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Summary: tables were done in Xerox star Message-ID: <734@arisia.Xerox.COM> Date: 9 May 89 00:35:51 GMT References: <1860@aucs.UUCP> <10094@claris.com> Organization: Xerox PARC Lines: 15