comments on thot after first use

Jeff Templon (templon@studbolt.mit.edu)
Fri, 5 Apr 1996 16:57:10 -0500

Hi,

Very nice product. A lot like what we've been looking for. There
are a number of things that need fixing before you've got a
"production" system:

1) Documentation of the "Letter" style. Also, at some point when you
are creating a letter document, it comes up with a dialogue which
asks you Presentation:, with the single choice LettreP. For
Americans, one needs "LettrePE" which is not listed as a choice,
or otherwise documented -- I just found it by guessing. It should
be the default choice for Letter style if English is the language,
and should also be listed as a choice in the dialogue box.

I think you should have a tutorial-style introduction to the Letter
style, since that is what many non-computer-specialist people will
first use.

2) PS Printing - this is pretty ratty at the moment. The margins seem
horribly wrong (the text is shoved way down towards the bottom
unless I enter a margin of around -30 mm!!!) Also, for Language of
English, US Letter should be the default. I have to reclick every
time I want to print. Perhaps the solution is to have a new ENV
variable, THOT_CONTINENT which could be set to "europe" or
"north_america" (or whatever) and have correctly-defined default
page setups and margins. I'm also not sure, but I think that there
was some magic combination of options which needed to be turned on
to get the re-marginization to work. Also, in the "patched"
version of psthot.pro, there is a typo: "showpage" has been
replaced by "showage".

Time to go catch my train.

JT