Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!oliveb!sun!plaid!chuq From: chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: FullWrite on shelves Message-ID: <52871@sun.uucp> Date: 11 May 88 20:53:46 GMT References: <158@amcad.UUCP> <52428@sun.uucp> <3720@fluke.COM> Sender: news@sun.uucp Reply-To: chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) Organization: Fictional Reality Lines: 57 >No question that they screwed up in describing this. For the record, >FW documents saved in format "Stationary" are basically read-only formats >for future letters -- you can't save them under the name they're opened >under. I find this more preferable than the MS Word "Read-only" option, >which I will forget to set every 10th iteration... Much nicer than Word. One thing I wish they'd implement, though, is the ability set a read-only bit on material IN a document. Set up your letterhead, then define all of the pieces imported from the stationery as unchangeable. So you can't delete or modify it accidentally. It'd even be really nice to generalize this and be able to set something like a sidebar (or some generic "thing" like a block of text) read-only. So if you're working on something, once you get part of it into its final form, you can freeze it cleanly. >And yes, that's the only way to get EPS files into FullWrite. Damn. I'd like to be able to load postscript into a random document and download it. The way they have it, I probably will find other ways of dealing with it. >Still, if you're writing articles for various magazines, you have to hope >that FullWrite will be available there soon. I know I want to write my >articles in FullWrite, and hope that the rest of the world comes around >soon. But it's a crap shoot. Not necessarily. I plan on shipping my stuff in both FullWrite and MacWrite. As long as you're careful about formatting, you should be okay. Most articles don't get that fancy that MacWrite can't handle them... >PS The one feature no one seems to mention is that the Change/Replace >option not only allows you to specify text to change, but also look >for/replace specific styles/fonts of text. Very, very handy... yeah... Two more comments: o There are places where Fullwrite is Sludgy. Reading/writing files and program startup are my two big gripes. Another one is when you do a page break, because of the WYSIWYG stuff. Word might have been ugly, but FullWrite is a lot slower at going to the next page. o Plan on buying QuicKeys, and if you haven't considered it, get a Datadesk keyboard. You're going to want to set up function keys for a lot of stuff -- or plan on using the mouse a lot. Lots of fairly common functions aren't mapped to the keyboard, like page/column breaks, printing, etc.... Of course, you want QuicKeys anyway. neat stuff. Chuq Von Rospach chuq@sun.COM Delphi: CHUQ Robert A. Heinlein: 1907-1988. He will never truly die as long as we read his words and speak his name. Rest in Peace.