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In article <105358@bu.edu>, anneklin@acs.bu.edu (Patricia Anne) writes:
|> In article <11405@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> warwick@cs.uq.oz.au writes:
|> >ucacmsu@ucl.ac.uk (Mr Stephen R Usher) writes:
|> >
|> >>with GCC your input file is identicle to
|> >>that you use with commercial "user-friendly" C compilers. TeX is totally
|> >>different. I'd put TeX in the same class as Postscript, ie a document
|> >>description language. It's just that no-one's written a word processor which
|> >>outputs TeX yet.
|> >
|> >Yes they have.
|> >
|> >It's called LaTeX.  I use the "Elvis" front-end module.  Others use the "Emacs"
|> >front-end module.  Someone even uses FirstWord, outputting in ASCII as
|> >the front-end module.
|> >
|> 
|> Actually, the "original" version of the Equation Editor for Microsoft
|> Word for Windows (by original, I mean the full-up commercial version
|> by a company other than uSoft, of which the Equation Editor is a
|> stripped down version) had an option to output in TeX or LaTeX forms.
|> 
|> I used TeX for about a year for typesetting fiction.  It's very
|> capable, but I got quite frustrated with it.  I'd love it if someone
|> would write a front-end that looked like WfW, and output TeX on
|> command--giving you a great interface with a nice, system-independent
|> output option.
|> 
|> Not that it's ever likely to happen.

Well, actually it has been done...
A suite of things such as a word processor and a drawing package have been
bundled together under the name "interview".  Unfortunately this is all
X based, so not likely to run on a bog standard ST for some years.
The output can be in latex form.
Would anyone feel like converting this?  It's only about 30 meg for the whole
lot :-)

|> 
|> Later,
|> 

Richard