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Do you want to be a BetterTester? Find out how! Nobody is currently advocating this application. Now would be a good time to sign up. We're rebels. We're misfits. But mostly, we're software liberators. And we're very, very good at what we do.

We have to be. Lots of developers work with open source, but only a tiny fraction of those are good enough to get software that was designed for one platform to work on another one. We invented CrossOver software - a unique approach to cross-platform compatibility that does not require dual-boot or another OS license. And we launched ExecMode to help organizations solve really ugly technical challenges. I discussed with conference attendees whether it was a good idea to keep the proprietary user interface.

My argument was that nobody at a computer works with only one application not even as a clerk on the so called main frames and hence is reluctant to deal with various interfaces. I got the impression that there was also an internal discussion on this subject within Interleaf and some people would have left the company and followed their own ideas — namely to relay on the interface of the platform. When years later I discovered FrameMaker it was to my great pleasure to find it using the interface of the platform, eventhough Windows 3.

Interleaf was also a structured authoring tool years before structured information e. But the combination of unpopular licensing and unfamiliar document model definitely gave FrameMaker a leg up when they got started. Another competitor started the same year as Frame, namely Ventura Publisher, who had the weight of Xerox behind them this may or may not have been a good thing.

Publisher had the advantage of being able to directly accept content created in a variety of other applications, such as MS Word, Wordstar, and WordPerfect, but had the disadvantage of not being a usable self-contained document authoring environment like FrameMaker.

Charles Corfield was the "engineer" who wrote the first version of FrameMaker — he needed something better than other available tools for doing his dissertation, and that was the gestation of Frame after he gave up graduate study to write a program that would lead to his starting a software company. He got together with David Murray who actually was a music major and Steve Kirsch who founded Mouse Systems and had a few million available after cashing out of Mouse Systems and the company was founded, along with Ronnie?

The market was so hungry for an affordable alternative to Interleaf that Frame was able to sell lots of licenses at approx. Sun jumped on the chance to use FrameMaker as a "Friend of Sun" and gave Frame lots of marketing support.

During his junior high and high school years, Kirsch also worked on operating systems for the group and wrote a status monitoring program, so users could tell who else was on the system. From the UCLA computer room, Kirsch went on to invent the optical mouse, patent the method of tracking advertising impressions on the Internet by click-counting, and start and profitably sell three companies.

His Mouse Systems Corp. He is now launching his fourth venture: Propel Corp. David was the principal designer and coauthor of Frame's flagship technical publishing product, FrameMaker, which has garnered many awards and after almost 20 years remains the market leader in technical publishing solutions. Frame went public in and was acquired by Adobe Systems in Corfield, a Cambridge University trained mathematician, possesses a strong engineering background and track record managing and advising growing technology companies.

To get anything else, convert to outline. In order to search for, or replace with, a tab or a hard return, preface the tab or return key with the Esc key. Extend the menu and you will see the international characters. The fast startup options available under Interleaf 5 5. However, once the desktop is up, no other performance gains are realized. Interleaf documentation explains the optional fast startup commands available.

Note two things: a fast startup creates a file on your desktop about 5mB in size. This often means that under some circumstances you may need to remove the file ileaf. This is advisable after any new releases of the software, of site-wide or individuallly installed applications, or in some cases if carelessly written active documents make assumptions about the system state. The capture box will appear and mouse control will be transferred to it. The middle button will give choices of Move, Capture, Size and Quit.

Capture will create an image. The choices in 5. The command switches are in the System Administration manual. If you have a Sun Type 5 keyboard, you need the "patch tape" which brings Interleaf 5. And we're very glad this newsgroup is up and running.

But we also recognize that this is a medium for our users, not for Interleaf, Inc. So, we are encouraging Interleafers not to jump into discussions prematurely. Our unofficial policy is that if a Leafer has an answer to a question which other users don't appear to be responding to or if it's a request for information that really should be addressed by us , then we'll reply privately.

There may, of course, be occasions where a public reply makes most sense, so we won't rule that out. Many problems were noticed with the tutorial in v5. Many of these were fixed in v5. Paranoid users who wish to run the tutorial might want to temporarily rename their desktop directory before running the tutorial, and then rename it back when finished. It's not appropriate for Interleaf to have a simple indent command. Property Sheets are germane to the point of structured document editors.

If you "merely" indent without changing the document objects, you are essentially imputing structure from format. This is a Bad Thing as it makes it very difficult to edit structure later on. On the other hand, format deduced from structure, as provided by many systems with "style sheet"-like mechanisms, is easy to edit. Also, it does not lead to confusion when the format is to be changed. However, it is possible in Interleaf 5 to provide keyboard actions which will edit structure as well as content.

Bob Morris has written some Lisp which will do this for the indentation toggling problem. Contact him at ram cs. If you get an "out of memory" message, try exiting Interleaf and trying the operation again. You can use the Unix "pstat -T" command to view the amount of virtual memory being used.

Patch PRA for Interleaf 5. Some sites have already worked around this problem by running on workstations with large amounts of memory and swap space. This will cause Interleaf to continue to run, consuming memory and cpu time. Copy the Clock. Any lisp programs in your profile drawer will be run every time you start Ileaf.

Lisp hackers can now edit your copy of Clock. Any files created under your desktop directory by processes other than Interleaf e.

Conversely, files removed still have icons displayed. Automatic rescan can be set in your profile using the profile tool, but since it slows things down it is disabled by default. Also use Rescan when removing files, but remember that any FileName. If you don't remove both files, you'll get strange behavior later. What's this Mona Lisa icon? If you cd to your desktop directory and do an ls -a, you may see things that don't seem to correspond to the icons Interleaf shows you.

These are documented on pages through of the System Administration manual, along with the meaning of each type of icon. If you have a lot of documents and want to automate this, you may well find it easier and faster to run Unix shell scripts which: 1. Run Interleaf in batch mode to make the files interleaf ascii.

Run textfilt to strip markup. Use the Unix wc 1 program to count words. Bob Morris has written some Lisp code which will count words. It may or may not be useful to you. Ask him for details. David Lightman reports that there is a simple Lisp script available from the Leafline q.

Also he has written some Lisp scripts to sum a column sorry haven't done rows , along with changing the attributes of row components based on a value you enter simple database query idea. Contact him for more info. This is what Interleaf's WorldView product can do. This is a bug that occurs when you use "Zoom" in the pulldown menu under the "View" bar just below the filename.

It occurs only when "View" is different than "x1". Use "Zoom" for text only. The fix for this is to edit the. Xdefaults file and add: Ileaf. Note that the precise capitalization of the string Ileaf. Select the component xyzzy, open its props, and click on Page props. Set the start new page to Yes. Spaces don't work. Use tabs and set the spacing on the Tab Property sheet for the component. You can also use this to align numbers on a decimal point. Better yet, use tables.

Select the first document and open it. Select the second document and cut it. One that may prove useful is keyboard-typo a better name is auto-quote. This automatically puts in an open qoute or close quote as required; it also changes the - to a hyphen instead of a minus sign. Another useful script is iconify, which allows you to hide your open document window and gives you back your desktop space so you can find another document. There is also a script to mail an ascii stripfiltered version of your document to a person you specify.

That's the Japanese kanji version of Interleaf. There are several ways you can email Interleaf documents: o If you know the recipient has Interleaf, you can use one of two methods: - Save the document as Interleaf ASCII, then include it in a mail file - Using OpenLook Mailtool, send the normal binary Interleaf document as an attachment. The mailtool encodes the binary file for you so it mails successfully. It will complain if the document is too large.

Also, it must be manually decoded if the recipient is not working in an Openwindows environment. Refer to the OpenWindows documentation for more information.

Note that this only works in OpenWindows version 3, not in version 2. This method is fine if you just want to transfer text, but you lose any graphics in frames. The instructions below are for people with not much experience at using mail, so they're fairly detailed.

They also had to cover people who don't have workstations, so it includes instructions on using the mail program rather than the mailtool. Sending a Document To send an Interleaf document through email, follow this procedure.

Redirect the file into the mail message with a single command. Enter the mail environment or open a mailtool and then read in the file. Use this method if you wish to preface or follow the document you are sending with text. For example, In the mail environment: 1 Type mail andrew 2 Enter any required text.

Using a mailtool SunView : 1 Press the Compose button to bring up a compose window. Using a mailtool OpenWindows : 1 Press the Compose button to bring up a compose window.

Receiving a Document To convert a file received through mail back into an Interleaf document, follow the procedure shown below. Using the mail environment: 1. Change into your desktop directory and enter the mail environment. Save the appropriate mail message into a file. In the following example, the header command lists the headers of a user's mail messages. The user saves message 2 into a file named whatsup. DON'T open it yet - goto step 3 below to edit out the mail header and any other extra text first.

Using a mailtool SunView : 1. Open the mailtool and Show the appropriate message. Save the appropriate mail message into a file in your desktop directory. Using a mailtool OpenWindows : 1. Open the mailtool and View the appropriate message. Save the appropriate mail message into a file in your desktop directory by entering the pathname of the file in the "Mail File" field e. The next four steps are the same whatever mail environment you use. In a shell window, edit the file on your desktop.

This must be the first line of the file in order for it to convert back to an Interleaf document. Save the file. Back in Interleaf, open the file icon on your desktop. You create a PostScript version of the document and email that - useful if your recipient doesn't have Interleaf but does have a PostScript printer. Procedure If you don't have Postscript set up as an option on your printer menu, you have to print to Printerleaf then filter the Printerleaf to Postscript as follows: 1. Mail the PostScript file.

PS-Adobe- 4. To get Revision Bars to appear wherever you add new text in a document, set the text property to "persistent Rev Bars" when you first open your document: 1. This is more automatic than the old method of turning rev bars ON then typing - whenever you moved the text cursor, the rev bars would turn themselves off.

Even with persistent rev bars, they can get turned off if you start doing fancy things with text properties, but generally this works. If you want a record of stuff you remove as well as change and add, then you need to look into Revision Tracking, and that's another story The default size of the desktop when you run Interleaf 5 under OpenWindows is annoyingly small. You can change the size of the window in two ways - using the -geometry startup option or by adding a line to your.

Xdefaults file: Ileaf. Use the command-line argument -restore when you start up Interleaf. It won't let you exit with unsaved open documents - you get the message "Cannot Exit the desktop until you Save or Close these documents".

So all you do is save without closing, then exit. Platform-Specific questions 5. To install Interleaf 5, a minimum of 20K free disk blocks is required on the system disk. This is temporary file storage, not permanent.

In some cases, Interleaf 5 gets installed with incorrect file ownerships and file protections. Do not install FMU in the Interleaf 5 hierarchy. Some performance gains can be acquired by properly tuning the system. Adjusting working sets so that the Interleaf user has access to all available free memory can help. One may assume that since Interleaf is often slow on a workstation, it must be unbearable on a DOS machine.

A workstation with a fast local disk would be a different story. This means that the command line invocation requires a slight twist. All of the same I5 programs exist pl2ps for example but have an extension of ". These files must be run from the command line with the loader "i5load. I5 -v -ppd NULL. The release is mainly intended to offer a system more easily used by people familiar with X-windows and Microsoft Windows.

A brief personally edited list of some typical differences, written by Bob Morris, follows. For how to get more detailed information, see the Appendix below. The UI is conformant to Motif and incorporates some Windows features.