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
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