cohill@vtserf.cc.vt.edu (Andrew M. Cohill) (06/02/90)
Ditto on those annoying problems with Word. I am hand-numbering figures in my dissertation proposal right now. If it gets out of hand I will use the mail merge kludge. Microsoft has really dropped the ball on that one; in their defense the tables in 4.0 are wonderful. I spent a couple of years writing professionally with tbl|troff, and I am willing to suffer through a lot to keep point-and-click tables. Yet those two or three additional features would give Word an almost unassailable first place in WP. My personal pet peeve is the difficulty of preventing figures from being split across a page. It takes a lot of hand-tuning to keep them in one piece. If there is a way to prevent this I have not run across it in TFM. GML/Script in the mainframe world has floating blocks that "float" to the top of the nearest page; a great feature in an otherwise wretched WP environment (XEDIT is disgusting). -- | ...we have to look for routes of power our teachers never | imagined, or were encouraged to avoid. T. Pynchon |Andy Cohill cohill@vtserf.cc.vt.edu VPI&SU |703/231-7855