🚀 go-pugleaf

Date: Thu, 7 May 87 11:52:51 PDT
From: CPT Tullia <tullia@sri-lewis.arpa>

I'm using Interleaf 2.5 on a Sun 3 and for the most part, I'm
satisfied.  However, it does have its shortcomings ...

Granted, it does not use the native environment.  But who's to say that
Sun's mouse definitions are the best.  For myself, I would hope for
some consistent user interface.

Perhaps I'm still a novice user but underlining, superscripts, and
subscripts are difficult to accomplish in text mode.  And displays when
overlaying text on a graphics frame are not really WYSIWYG.

The chart building facility is excellent, permitting a great deal of
versatility, if one is willing to customize, although not necessary for
most applications.  Since many of the charts appear
management-oriented, it's inability to import data for the charts may
be forgiveable.

Importing ASCII documents is also a bit disappointing.  I find it
annoying that I cannot get left margin alignment on subitems in a list
-- I had always believed that leading spaces would maintain the same
width from line to line.

Interleaf may be market leader but I did not detect a difference
between the functionality it had on a Sun 2 and that which I now have
on the Sun 3.

Like most applications, it does have its warts.  But, Interleaf has
provided a tool which is eminently usable -- especially if you like to
mouse a lot.

We do have a contingent which had previously used Interleaf and is now
using Frame.  They seem to prefer it and it uses the native
environment.


Thom Tullia            tullia@sri-lewis.arpa                      

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