Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!ucsd!orion!ics.uci.edu!nagel From: nagel@ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Technotes in FullWrite??? Message-ID: <628@orion.cf.uci.edu> Date: 5 Jun 88 19:27:42 GMT References: <13005@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <10493@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <568@natinst.UUCP> <10518@ism780c.isc.com> Sender: news@orion.cf.uci.edu Reply-To: nagel@ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel) Organization: University of California, Irvine - Dept. of ICS Lines: 21 In article <10518@ism780c.isc.com> darryl@ism780c.UUCP (Darryl Richman) writes: +In article <568@natinst.UUCP> brian@natinst.UUCP (Brian H. Powell) writes: +> Because, as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. It's nice +>when they can include a diagram of some sort to explain themselves. It also +>lets them use various fonts to highlight certain things. You can't do that +>with a plain text file. + +All of this discussion misses the point of the original poster (whose remarks +are now lost here) -- why use FullWrite when there are a substantial number +of people that don't own and may not need this expensive word processor. I got the feeling that someone detached from reality in some dark corner somewhere got the task of preparing the index and thought it would be nifty to use FullWrite. What I really don't understand is why Apple doesn't release the technotes or at least the index in a HyperCard stack. HC was built for indexes (well, not only indexes, but it certainly does a good job). Mark D. Nagel Department of Information and Computer Science, UC Irvine nagel@ics.uci.edu (ARPA) I'm not a graduate student, {sdcsvax|ucbvax}!ucivax!nagel (UUCP) but I play one on TV...