Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site uw-beaver Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!tektronix!uw-beaver!laser-lovers From: laser-lovers@uw-beaver Newsgroups: fa.laser-lovers Subject: Re: Any comments on Interleaf? Message-ID: <1468@uw-beaver> Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 14:26:45 EDT Article-I.D.: uw-beave.1468 Posted: Mon Aug 5 14:26:45 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 9-Aug-85 02:42:35 EDT Sender: daemon@uw-beaver Organization: U of Washington Computer Science Lines: 25 From: mips!hansen@Glacier (Craig Hansen) I've used Interleaf's Release 1.0 for several months. The system is really a joy (little j) to use, and I've produced documents up to about 100 pages without encountering serious performance problems. I have only demoed Release 2.0, which may have some H&J improvements. As to the quality of the hyphenation, justification, and letter-spacing; hyphenation is non-existant, which occasionally makes for extremes in white-space variation; justification has no control over orphans (single words appear on a line at the end of paragraphs), and the letter-spacing, while not bad on paper, is quite inaccurate when displayed on screen. The inaccuracies in the on-screen letter-spacing make it hard to build complicated diagrams without making frequent hard copies. The WYSIWYG diagramming system in Interleaf's product was what sold me; I was willing to live with what I considered minor flaws in the H&J software to get the functionality and performance the system provides. Craig Hansen MIPS Computer Systems