grahamt@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Graham S Thomas) (05/09/91)
From article <2901@odin.cs.hw.ac.uk>, by neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth): > In article <1991May5.124501.14339@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu > (Mickey Boyd) writes: >> Timeworks - No longer updating US versions (but are still updating UK ones). > > Hardly. They just did a panic fix to make it work with the TT and maybe fixed > a few horror bugs while they were at it. Timeworks is static. The PC version > isn't though and they are pushing the followup Desk Press. GST know that they've made more money out of ST Timeworks DTP in the past than they will in the future, so they're not exactly busting a gut to create new versions of it. It's still probably the quickest DTP program to learn, though, and it's OK if your requirements are simple. I've not had much time to play with the latest UK version (it replaces v1.12, and is confusingly called 1.h12), but a couple of things I've noticed are: It seems to need a bit more memory than the previous version. I have about half the memory on my 1040 taken up with ACCs, AUTO progs, etc. (although I can add about 150k to that when I unload NeoDesk) and when I run the latest version of Timeworks it reboots the machine when I try to open a file (of any size at all). If I take out a couple of memory-resident programs - any of them - all is well. It always leaves behind a temporary file on exit - the old version used to clean up properly (usually). I haven't had a chance to test whether they fixed the 12pt Dutch font, which used to print question marks (in the Atari laser version at least) upside down. The current version of 1st Word Plus, from the same stable, does seem to be better than previous incarnations of version 3. The new version 3.20TT allows you to choose a stable or flashing cursor, lets you configure hyphenation via an exceptions dictionary, allows you to redefine the keyboard again (this ability was present in v2, but not in versions 3.1 through 3.14 - it reappeared in 3.15) and allegedly scrolls faster than before (I can't tell - I use Turbo ST so it's all faster anyway.) Oh, and it fixes a printer bug that appeared if you reformatted a doc from single to double spacing, and of course it now runs on the TT. Graham -- Graham Thomas, SPRU, Mantell Building, U of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9RF, UK Email: grahamt@syma.sussex.ac.uk Phone: +44 273 678165 Fax: .. 685865