Tables

[billybob]

As to Atlantis being near death, this may be so.

Greetings--
This is to set everybody’s mind at rest. Atlantis is not near death at all. Actually, Atlantis is getting along nicely. These alleged news about Atlantis being near death are just a figment of one poster's imagination who obviously has made it his crusade to run Atlantis and its developers down.
And even though one person insists on questioning our sincerity, we hope that everybody can take our word for it: Atlantis will eventually support all the major features of a top-end word processor, including tables.
Cheers
Robert

Robert:

Just to clarify. My post above was in strong defense of Atlantis and its developers. My point was that none of us, including the poster above questioning the viability of Atlantis, can question the usability, feature set and stability of the current release, and any suggestion of Atlantis' demise is misplaced and counterproductive. Again, I wish RSSOL and Atlantis a prosperous and solid future.

Cheers back at ya,

BillyBob

[Prince]

Oh yeah!

I am following up with Atlantis since the days of 0.7. By developing a program it is important to keep it stable and to decide which functions are really important. Especially when your target is to create a swift and handy word processor.

[Stirlitz]

The ones that I tested are fine with tables

wich one was it?

I removed all of them eventually and I do not remember the names of most of them, but the most prominents one is Everest. I also remember MyEditor.

By the way it was funny to read on the web page of MyEditor that the developers of Atlantis had been promising to add tables support for a long time. Mind you, the page was last modified in 2002...

This is to set everybody’s mind at rest. Atlantis is not near death at all. Actually, Atlantis is getting along nicely. These alleged news about Atlantis being near death are just a figment of one poster's imagination who obviously has made it his crusade to run Atlantis and its developers down.

If you are referring to me, I apologize for being too acrimonious. I love Atlantis and this is why I am so much concerned about its development. It is great to hear that the project was not abandoned, something I fear was the case.

But I do want to stress that there must be some responsibility behind claims like it will eventually support. If your 'will' stands for ten more years, it can be easily replaced with 'will not' for us end users.

[Prince]

I just had a look at MyEditor's website. But the do not seem to have an english (or even german) version.

[Prince]

And that point remembers me that there is still no german version of Atlantis. With or without tables, this would make Atlantis more suitable for the german market (more than 100 million people in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium)

[abdobe]

Why is it so important with tables? Why don't you guys use another s l o w e r and fully bloated word processor like MS Word or OpenOffice indstead?

You have answered your question. Why don't you use a s l o w e r editor? I bet because it is slow.

You do not really need tables if you use your text editor to write emails or essays. If all that you need is bold, italic and different fonts, you do not actually need Atlantis. But if you are a professional, you will need them sooner or later, be it a report, a technical article or some specification.

There are a number of small free RTF editors written by Russian programmers offhand; unfortunately they no longer develop but the funny thing is all of them support tables. Why tables implementation which is easy for teenagers is so hard a task for Atlantis developers remains a mystery.

Well, I don't deny that I use tables at work and now and then....
However, that's why I also use OpenOffice at home and MS Word at work.
I prefer Atlantis as my main word editor to work with text alone, and because it is fast, handles different languages (due to a lot of translation work) very good.
Sometimes though, I need other tools than Atlantis can handle, and that’s why I just love OpenOffice.
What if tables in Atlantis slows the whole thing down? What do you gain from Atlantis that OpenOffice or MS Word can't give you better?
More precisely - If Atlantis slows down or get to bloated, I will prefer OpenOffice.

[Prince]

If I'd like to have a bloated word processor I would chose Textmaker. There was a free cd with a magazine some time ago.

[Prince]

Btw: do you remember that I suggested once ago to create an Atlantis-Version for Windows CE? Softmaker offers Textmaker for CE.

But I should not talk on this - last time I visited their forum one of the other users said in the end he wants to buy now Atlantis.

[Guest]

I started this post on Thu Sep 16, 2004 2:50 pm and it has had 27 replies and 728 views. We understand that some who read the posts do not reply, the views alone means that many are interested in this feature. but amazes me as to the seemingly refusal to implement this ( now tell me off Robert ) Don't get me wrong but I do not understand why reletivley unimportant features are added (cosmetic) when features clearly that would make this the number one WP are added instead

[Guest]

October 2005

Atlantis 1.6 beta

no tables feature

[Andremusic]

I really don't understand the discussions about tables. Instead of complaining so much, why not use another program. It seems to me that the fact that you keep using Atlantis, must mean that you are at the same time very happy with it.

I myself have no need for tables, I use Atlantis for my writing and especially now with the outline option, Atlantis has really everything I need. I am very glad that I never need office again! I finished writing two complete books without having problems with the program. (except one, but that was totally my own fault). And really… think for a moment about the price!

[Robert]

I really don't understand the discussions about tables. Instead of complaining so much, why not use another program. It seems to me that the fact that you keep using Atlantis, must mean that you are at the same time very happy with it.

I myself have no need for tables, I use Atlantis for my writing and especially now with the outline option, Atlantis has really everything I need. I am very glad that I never need office again! I finished writing two complete books without having problems with the program. (except one, but that was totally my own fault). And really… think for a moment about the price!

Greetings--
André, thank you for showing sound common sense and expressing sympathy.
We hope you keep enjoying Atlantis!
Cheers
Robert