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From: chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
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Subject: Re: FullWrite on shelves
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Date: 12 May 88 15:54:23 GMT
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>What about equations...does FWP have an 'math typesetting' facilities
>similar to or better than Words?  (I know Words are pretty basic, but
>for many things it beats the cut&paste approach of DA's etc.  NO flames
>please - I know about Tex.)

No. There was a fairly long discussion of this in January when the FWP demo
came out. AAS (now Ashton-Tate) specifically didn't include formula
processing because they felt it was a fairly obscure feature and there are
already a number of independent products taht they felt covered the
territory well enough. And you can always go in the draw layer and build
it up manually, much as you would in something like MacDraw.

I'm not even going to get into whether this is a good or bad decision. We
had this flame war last time. But no, there's no math processing.

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.