billo@cmx.UUCP (05/12/88)
I'm posting this to comp.sys.mac because the original reference was in this group, and it still has some relevance for some people here. (Also comp.text.desktop is moderated, and my postings to it bounce). <<jts%siemens.com@princeton.edu (Jim Sasaki) writes>> >... We seem to have a version of Sun Interleaf that doesn't have >eqn. (Either that, or it's buried so deep in the documentation that no one has >found it.) People told me there is no way to get non-numeric subscripts with >our Interleaf. Perhaps we need some sort of upgrade. Probably. With eqn you can certainly get non-numeric subscripts. >The only personal experience I have with Interleaf was for a couple of hours; >I can't say I enjoyed them. Footnotes were painful: I had to manually place >the footnote mark (e.g., the dagger) at the bottom of the page, I had to >manually break the footnote text at the end of each line, and the only way to >correct a line was to erase it and retype it. You were either doing it the wrong way, or you had an old version of Interleaf (we run 3.0 TPS). Footnotes are supposed to be frames, and frames can contain microdocuments, which have most of the properties of ordinary documents, including auto filling and auto wrapping, as well as the full editing capabilities you would expect. Footnotes can even contain graphics with your text, if you wanted it. >They nested pull-right menus too deeply (my personal opinion) -- to >change the font size, you had to go 3? 4? 5? levels down. There are keyboard accelerators for these basic things. Bill O'Farrell, Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University (billo@cmx.npac.syr.edu)