gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (08/21/90)
Does anyone know when microsoft will release a new macintosh version of MS-Word? I'd particularly like to see them solve some of the following problems: (1) italics & subscripts confuse the justification algorithm when fractional widths are turned on. The left-hand margin is always ragged. Also, overstrikes SERIOUSLY confuse the algorithm (leaving a big gap in the middle of a line, right after the overstrike.) (2) mathematics sizing & positioning (particularly summations) could be a lot better. We need support for overbars. (3) Some kind of support for automatic numbering (of figures, equations, sections, theorems, corollaries, etc. etc. etc.) is desperately needed! I hope microsoft will address these problems in MS-Word 5.0. Don W. Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois 1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801 ARPA: gillies@cs.uiuc.edu UUCP: {uunet,harvard}!uiucdcs!gillies