Re: Newly Released Mathematica 5.1 Delivers Unmatched Performance for Handling Data
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- Subject: [mg52489] Re: Newly Released Mathematica 5.1 Delivers Unmatched Performance for Handling Data
- From: "Kevin J. McCann" <kjm at KevinMcCann.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 01:22:37 -0500 (EST)
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Johshua, Thanks for the history lesson. I hope the WRI folks are paying attention, but I suspect that the 5.0 comments will be dug up and displayed when someone complains again about the same problem in 6.0, 7.0, ... Kevin Joshua A. Solomon wrote: > On 24/11/04 8:02 am, in article co1f6q$slm$1 at smc.vnet.net, "Kevin J. McCann" > <kmccann at umbc.edu> wrote: > > >> rotated-text problem has been with us >>for at least two years. > > > Andrew Watson (see below, from Google Groups) and I had a good laugh over > this. > > Subject: [mg52489] "At long last, Sir, have you no shame?" > Original FormatNewsgroups: comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica > > Saying first that I am a fanatical Mathematica user, in awe of the product > and its developers, I nonetheless feel compelled to say that... > > I am absolutely astonished that Mathematica 4.0 has *still* not fixed the > FrameLabel rotated text bug, which prevents vertical axis labels from > appearing properly when rendered on screen on the Mac. This bug causes > endless troubles for those of us who prepare figures for both printing and > live presentation. This bug has been present since time immemorial, but > elicits only sheepish chuckles from Wolfram developers when mentioned. What > gives? Is this really something that has stumped the greatest computational > minds of the end of the millenium? Is it really so low on the list of > priorities that it has persisted for 10 years? Have you no shame? > > Andrew B. Watson > NASA Ames Research Center > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >