[softwarelist] Re: Paragraph Rules?
- From: Brian Bailey <bbailey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 07:34:30 +0100
Hi
> >TableMate is now available from CJE;
> Quite right. ISTR the matter being thrashed to death on comp.sys.acorn,
> the author having gone to NZ and not wanting to continue, CJE buying it
> out etc. etc.
> It is interesting that Computer Concepts saw the need for tables and
> came up with the idea of using tablemate.
> That was in the days when everyone said "oh we like lots of small apps
> that can work together", when they meant "we'd like one huge app that
> does everything called MicroSoft Word".
Without wanting to go thoroughly off topic I note that Word documents,
containing tables, when loaded into !EasiWriter don't appear to render
properly and, for some reason not clear to me, become un-editable.
> It solved the problem quickly for CC and adding tables to Impression
> would not have been easy.
> Built in tables could do things tablemate can't, but I don't think I am
> about to do them.
I was just about to say something similar. !TableMate is a very capable
application, no doubt. But it doesn't allow all the typesetting capability
of !OvatPro if that aspect is a critical issue in a project, which was
something that I was alluding to previously. So it does need to be used
with care if files are loaded into !OvatPro.
However, just musing out loud, I wonder if !TableMate would be unduly
difficult to convert into an Applet, perhaps.
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