Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cvaxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!mcvax!ukc!warwick!cvaxa!sakw From: sakw@cvaxa.UUCP (Sak Wathanasin) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: spacing (MS-WORD flame, actually) Message-ID: <140@cvaxa.UUCP> Date: Sat, 10-Aug-85 08:14:16 EDT Article-I.D.: cvaxa.140 Posted: Sat Aug 10 08:14:16 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 21:55:07 EDT References: <405@cmu-cs-spice.ARPA> Organization: Univ of Sussex, Cognitive Studies, UK Lines: 25 Xpath: warwick ubu > By and large, the things that WORD has problems with (other than slow > printing on the LaserWriter) seem to be features that don't even exist in > MacWrite. I have a few gripes (in addition to the ones already posted) that are not related to WORD "features": 1) Changing fonts is awkward. I found this out when using the Princeton font for equations in running text. Someone else mentioned this in a recent posting. 2) It doesn't show you running headers and footers. Also it ignores the margins when printing them, so that I had to produce several drafts to get my headers lined up right. And it takes several levels of menus (3 ?) to set up a header or footer. 3) The paragraph format is held at the end of the para, and can be deleted by the backspace key. I was deleting a bunch of stuff with the backspace key and didn't take my finger off fast enough - the preceeding para suddenly reformatted itself. Took me a while to work out what had happened. I use MacW most of the time, if only because I can convert from MacW to WORD but not vice versa. -- Sak Wathanasin, U of Sussex, Cognitive Studies, Falmer, Sussex BN1 9QN, UK uucp:...mcvax!ukc!cvaxa!sakw arpa/janet: sakw%svga@uk.ac.ucl.cs