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Article #8568Re: Is Fullwrite dead?
From: Dean Yu
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1989 22:06
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1989 22:06
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In article <5488@internal.Apple.COM> kessler@applelink.apple.com (Todd Kessler) writes:
>Since there seems to be some FullWrite users watching...
>
>I bought FW1.0 when it came out and upgraded to 1.1. I then found a bug
>that the people at Ashton-Tate confirmed that I simply could not live
>with. I'm wondering if anyone else out there ran into it as well.
>
>It's called "Creeping Sidebars" in Ashton-Tate lingo. In other words, for
>EVERY mouse click or EVERY key stroke, certain "infected" sidebars will
>actually MOVE (yes, by themselves) ONE pixel down the page. After long
>periods of typing I actually had sidebars sitting at the bottom of my
>pages, when they were originally placed in the middle!! Ashton-Tate's
>solution/suggestion: COPY and PASTE your creeping sidebars back to there
>original positions before printing...What...WHAT!!!! You go through 50
>pages and find creeping sidebars, I'm switching to Word...
>
>Anyway, just curious if anyone else has seen this and found a more
>suitable fix.
>
I too have run into this problem. The sidebars in question are always the
first thing on a page. My fix was to put a blank line before each of the
sidebars in question, but if they float with the text, and the text moves up or
down, the formatting can get really messy. :/
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!shadooby!netnews.engin.umich.edu!news From: mystone@mondo.engin.umich.edu (Dean Yu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Is Fullwrite dead? Message-ID: <1989Nov29.220641.15574@caen.engin.umich.edu> Date: 29 Nov 89 22:06:41 GMT References: <3612@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu> <2938@sparky.UUCP> <5488@internal.Apple.COM> Sender: news@caen.engin.umich.edu (USENET News System) Reply-To: mystone@caen.engin.umich.edu Organization: Computer Aided Engineering Network, University of Michigan Lines: 32