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- From: ldtaylor@tbag.tscs.com (Lance Taylor)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: TypeSMITH announcement
- Message-ID: <ldtaylor.04rt@tbag.tscs.com>
- Date: 25 Dec 92 23:40:46 EST
- Organization: Tampa Bay Amiga Group
- Lines: 60
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- On Fri 25-Dec-1992 11:33p, tim corcoran wrote:
- tc> In article <ldtaylor.04p2@tbag.tscs.com> ldtaylor@tbag.tscs.com (Lance
- tc> Taylor) writes:
-
- tc> > FCII is totally unexpandable and, in my opinion, is only good
- tc> > those who do little more than type in a few select fonts...
- tc> >
-
-
- tc> Yeah exactly, how dare they produce a program that implements only 99% of
- tc> the requirements of only 99% of the market.
-
- And how dare I get upset over something that no one in my department can
- use? Think it through - there ACTUALLY exists some of us who type
- in Cyrilic, Arabic, Chinese, etc.; I study in the Modern Languages
- area, so I KNOW that tere exists others... what about German users,
- who DO have a couple of characters different than English? Not to
- mention Final Copy II just totally avoids using the industry stan-
- dard, something that has plagued Amiga users since the first 1000
- rolled off the line...
-
- tc> What nerve!
-
- What Nerve? What nerve to institute a system that ignores a large market -
- those in foreign languages! Although 168 people isn't a large market,
- that's how many people in my department have stopped using anf form
- of Final Copy II - we use Amigas for our typesetting and department
- exams...
-
- tc> Don't they know that someone somewhere is going to need to use a Cyrillic
- tc> font!
-
- You are absolutely right - it is INCONCEIVABLE that someone might need some-
- tihng other than the limited fonts they produce... what was marketing
- THINKING?
-
-
- tc> What a bunch of inconsiderate bozos!
-
- tc> Jeez! lighten up buddy!
-
- AS soon as SoftWood starts showing rational thought, I shall... until then,
- I will simply suggest everyone either use a good solid Amiga WP that
- can use outside, non-proprietary fonts (ProWrite is my favorite), or
- use an emulator and boot up MS Word or Wordperfect...
-
- tc> ---
- tc> [..!{uunet,qiclab,intelhf,bucket}!m2xenix!becca!corcoran!tim]
-
- tc> -----------------------------------------------------------------
-
- tc> This isn't a job... It's an indenture!
-
- tc> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-
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