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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.

Later,