Hi Bob,
Are you saying that there are still features that were relevent and helpful on the UNIX platform that don't translate over well to Windows?
I'm old enough to remember UNIX. I cant remember the name of the app I used to create my college papers, but it involved a bunch of tag-like commands at the beginning of the document to get the very basic formatting down. Then I'd procrastinate by playing ULARN, which was like a UNIX-based RPG.
As for equations, mercifully, no. I do not work with them 🤓
Susan: Are you saying that there are still features that were relevent and helpful on the UNIX platform that don't translate over well to Windows?
No, just that there are corridors in the FM House that don't lead to where you probably are trying to go. While the Equation tools still exists, and works, there were a few things it never did. It was never updated to emit equations as EPS, SVG or MathML. Instead, Adobe had an arrangement to use a 3rd-party MathML editor, which may not still even work (bug report FRMAKER-11189). My guess is that the current solution, as with graphics, is to use an arbitrary external MathML editor, and import an XML or SVG object from it.
Another apprently darkening corridor is Unicode. FM only supports BMP (FRMAKER-10976), which is now only 42.3% of populated Unicode space. This is becoming an increasing annoyance in my work, as the work-around is😱.
re: I'm old enough to remember UNIX. I cant remember the name of the app I used to create my college papers, but it involved a bunch of tag-like commands at the beginning of the document to get the very basic formatting down.
Perhaps nroff or troff? I was delighted to dispense with those when FM came along.
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