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Subject: Re: Any comments on Interleaf?
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Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 14:26:45 EDT
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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