norton@extro.ucc.su.oz.au (Norton Chia) (02/27/91)
Hi, I have an offer to buy Tycho with my Nisus package. These are my questions: 1) Earlier, I remember *one* of the table creating software went down. Which one was it? Was it Tycho or the other one? 2) Would you buy the above program to use with another word processor? What other alternatives are available if you run Nisus instead of Word? I think it will cost me US$75 plus shipping. I have been unable to locate the product in the mail order catalogs. Anxiously awaiting your responses, Norton -- **** My employers ignore me, I'm on my own when I speak out in public :^( **** Norton Chia || My address is norton@extro.ucc.su.oz.au Micro Support || "When are they going to put in built-in spell-chequers" *******************************************************************************
bobd@zaphod.UUCP (Bob Dalgleish) (03/07/91)
In article <norton.667655802@extro> norton@extro.ucc.su.oz.au (Norton Chia) writes: >Hi, I have an offer to buy Tycho with my Nisus package. These are my questions: > >1) Earlier, I remember *one* of the table creating software went down. > Which one was it? Was it Tycho or the other one? The other one -- it was an all-singing all-dancing table layout system: pluggable modules, remote execution of Excel sheets, etc. I am not surprised that they went under - list price was more than MS-Word. >2) Would you buy the above program to use with another word processor? > What other alternatives are available if you run Nisus instead of Word? I did buy it over a year ago. It is quite good at laying out tables. Many of the table features beat the stuff in Word hands down. > >I think it will cost me US$75 plus shipping. I have been unable to locate the >product in the mail order catalogs. I was impressed by the support, especially since I bought the package before reviews occurred. There are still bugs in it when you try to do strange things, but I have not upgraded from V1.1.2. Really good at building big tables -- some of the stuff I prepare requires several pages of tables with variable size paragraphs inside each cell. It does pagination, row and column headers on each page, and handles footnotes. I understand the FullWrite Professional 1.5 comes with Tycho, perhaps embedded in it. I would not recommend FWP because of that. >Anxiously awaiting your responses, >Norton Chia || My address is norton@extro.ucc.su.oz.au -- -- * * * Remember: I before E except after DALGL * * *-- Bob Dalgleish bobd@zaphod.UUCP
m_herodotus@csc32.enet.dec.com (Mario Herodotus) (03/08/91)
In article <4176@zaphod.UUCP>, bobd@zaphod.UUCP (Bob Dalgleish) writes: >I understand the FullWrite Professional 1.5 comes with Tycho, perhaps >embedded in it. I would not recommend FWP because of that. FullWrite does not have Tycho embedded in it. It ships with it's own manual and on its own disks. Since Fullwrite can be purchased for less than $75 that the original poster was considering paying for Tycho alone, I suggest that he buy FullWrite instead. You may want to check which version of Tycho is shipping with FullWrite and which version of Tycho the $75 offer is for first though. Mario ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I can't afford my own opinions, and DEC won't pay for them either. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mario Herodotus [ CX03 1/K3 ] | m_herodotus@coors.dec.com Digital Equipment Corporation | Customer Support Center | - or - m_herodotus%coors.dec@decwrl.dec.com 305 Rockrimmon Blvd. | Colorado Springs, CO 80919 | - or - ...!decwrl!coors.dec.com!m_herodotus | (800) 525-6570 Ext 25520 | [direct line (719) 592-5520] | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
rmf@cs.columbia.edu (Robert M. Fuhrer) (03/11/91)
> You may want to check > which version of Tycho is shipping with FullWrite and which version of > Tycho the $75 offer is for first though. I just received an upgrade to FullWrite 1.5s. It contains Tycho 1.1.6. I have not used it yet, and so can't say much as to whether it fixes significant bugs or has significant new features. The "README" document that comes with it doesn't say anything interesting. -- -------------------------- Robert M. Fuhrer Computer Science Department Columbia University 1117B Fairchild Building Internet: rmf@cs.columbia.edu UUCP: ...!rutgers!cs.columbia.edu!rmf