alansari@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Mohammad Al-Ansari) (05/05/91)
I was typing a paper that had a complicated formulas and just as I started typing in the formulas (using W4W formula fields) W4W became unbelievably slow! Updating the screen took much much longer than it used to take. It stayed like that for a good while, until I was convinced that this is the best W4W can do. I tried everything I could think of but nothing helped. I ended up switching to draft mode, in which formulae looked terrible. But after a hours slow painful editing W4W was all of a sudden very fast again!! With almost no noticeable difference between scrolling plain text or complicated formulas, and I don't recall having done anything in particular trying to fix it at that point!! Have anybody had such a problem before? And if so could he/she tell me what was going on and how it can be fixed? I hate to have this happen to me again and not know what to do except to wait hoping that W4W will all of a sudden become fast again! Any help will be greatly appreciated. -- Mohammad Al-Ansari Computer Science Department Indiana University Bloomington, IN, USA
drp@dosbears.UUCP (David R. Preston) (05/05/91)
In article <1991May4.204118.2770@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> alansari@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Mohammad Al-Ansari) writes: > >I was typing a paper that had a complicated formulas and just as I >started typing in the formulas (using W4W formula fields) W4W became >unbelievably slow! >But after a hours slow painful editing W4W was all of a sudden very >fast again!! I dunno, but were you doing saves during this time? I'd suggest if it happens again that you do a full save (not using fast save), and see if that helps. Also, do you have a "reasonable" amount of memory on this machine? (and please don't tell us that it's a 4mhz Tasmanian pc upgraded to a 286 with 512k memory and you're running from a floppy :-) -- David R. Preston drp%dosbears.uucp@ingres.com The world hadn't ever had so many moving parts or so few labels. D. R. Preston 584 Castro St. #614 SF CA 94114 USA
alansari@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Mohammad Al-Ansari) (05/05/91)
In article <298@dosbears> drp%dosbears.uucp@ingres.com (David R. Preston) writes: >I dunno, but were you doing saves during this time? I'd suggest >if it happens again that you do a full save (not using fast save), >and see if that helps. This is something I didn't try, I will check into it and see if it helps! > Also, do you have a "reasonable" amount >of memory on this machinee (and please don't tell us that it's >a 4mhz Tasmanian pc upgraded to a 286 with 512k memory and you're >running from a floppy :-) > No :-) I have a Zeos 386SX with 4MB RAM and a 80Mb HD with plenty of room available :) > >-- > David R. Preston drp%dosbears.uucp@ingres.com > The world hadn't ever had so many > moving parts or so few labels. > D. R. Preston 584 Castro St. #614 SF CA 94114 USA -- Mohammad Al-Ansari Computer Science Department Indiana University Bloomington, IN, USA
robert@am.dsir.govt.nz (Robert Davies) (05/06/91)
I have the same problem (Word for Windows going very slowly - say 30 seconds to update a page) in my paper incorporating a lot of maths including symbols and formula fields. It seemed to happen less frequently when I reduced the number of fonts, broke the paper up into shorter segments, and removed some of the bars and other things on the screen that I didn't need. I am using ATM and I can't remember whether I had the same effect before I got ATM. Because the effect is unpredicable it is difficult to do experiments on what helps or the exact circumstances. I have 4 mb of memory, a 386SX (and coprocessor). It was W4W version 1.0; I have just upgraded to 1.1 and don't know yet whether the problem persists. The problem is now at a managable level but I would still like to know what is going on. Robert