Subject: Re: Response to Bad Review [was Re: Fwd: not worth downloading]
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Jun 19 2001 - 07:44:02 CDT
On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Alan wrote:
>
> Martin Sevior wrote:
> >
>
> On reflection I should have said most people, not some people.
>
> > > I think it is quite reasonable for a very large number of people not
> > > to care about these things and in fact to have never given them much
> > > thought at all. In fact, for the commonly-stated target user of
> > > AbiWord, this is even more true. Most users use one computer in one
> > > place in one locale, and they want apps that do various things in easy
> > > ways.
>
> Cant argue with that. mentioned the one locale point earlier today in
> bug/rfe 1590. im the nitpicker who did the en-IE (aka en-GB)
> localisation.
>
> > I agree. Just stick to the points where the reviewer was factually in
> > error. Abi certainly does have automatic numbering of paragraphs for
> > example.
>
> I dont get what is meant by Paragraph numbering?
>
> do you mean that i can create a Numbered List and type some text and
> press shift+enter to get a line breaks (which is not obvious to an
> ordinary user) and instead of a paragraph break, and this is effectively
> numbered paragraphs.
> is that what you mean? and is that probably the same as what the
> reviewer meant?
No I'm sure he just meant
1. This is here
2. Next here
3. Me here
This guy is obviously out to Lunch. Abi obviously so much better than Word
Pad it's not even funny.
For a start tell him about the Modeless Word Count dialog. Park it next to
his document and watch it incrementas he types.
Ask him to insert symbols with the a Modeless dialog in Word Pad.
Ask him to show us the On the fly spell-checking.
Show him the Modeless GOTO, Find/ Replace.
Ask him to insert Header/footers in WordPad.
Ask him to even change the page orientation. Choose A1 or A6 page in
Landscape mode on Word Pad.
Geeze even ask him to open two or 4 different views on the same document.
Ask him to import Palm Documents or Psion documents into Word Pad.
Ask him to show hidden formatting characters in Word Pad.
What about subscripting and superscripting?
Ask him to do nested lists in Word Pad.
Of course that's just a few of the ways Abi is better. V0.90 has lots more
features still.
Cheers
Martin
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